Word: wasp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shown that in this wide-open economy a hard-nosed scrapper can beat the odds. His first big boss warned him not to expect to rise too high in banking because grandsons of Lebanese immigrants can't make it big in that Wasp world. Abboud was not impressed, and several years ago he beat out three other candidates to become chairman of First Chicago Corp., parent of First National Bank of Chicago. He savors the perks: the chauffeured limo that picks him up in the exurbs at 6 a.m.; the ballroom-sized corner office decorated with Oriental artifacts...
Animal House contains every college stereotype you can think of, from the frigid WASP princess who takes her rubber gloves along on jaunts to lover's lane to the self-styled Casanovas, who try endlessly to perfect their pick up routines. All of them take their lumps at least once, with almost everyone getting it or dishing it out in the screamingly funny, bangup ending...
Neckties are a little like wasp-waist corsets for women: even if one admires the look, he must wonder why they need to be uncomfortable. To be neat, the tie requires a shirt buttoned snugly at the Adam's apple. So, especially of course in summer, the body notices that it is airlessly bound at waist, wrists and neck. Food for the stomach and air for the lungs must pass down this strait constricted to appease teachers, bosses and headwaiters...
...even more dramatic charge follows: the "black power" movement was partially responsible for reviving and legitimizing ethnicity as a principle of political action, and that this weapon of politicized ethnicity is now being used against blacks. One only has to look at the alliance of Jewish, Catholic, and WASP groups against the special: U.C. Davis affirmative action program in the Bakke controversy to see the accuracy of Patterson's point...
...Sinclair Hobbs, 80, aviation engineer who developed the powerful J57 jet engine; of a stroke; in Hartford, Conn. Hobbs, who designed the carburetor for Charles Lindbergh's The Spirit of St. Louis, joined Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in 1927. As their chief engineer, he developed the R-2800 Double Wasp workhorse engine of World War II planes...