Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fraternity brotherhood-once built on a foundation of religious and ethnic exclusion-is opening up a bit. Most fraternities proclaim policies of nondiscrimination, but on many campuses there are Wasp houses, Jewish houses and black houses-and everyone knows which is which...
...cornerback for the New York Jets, spends his off seasons chasing bugs as he works toward a master's in entomology at Colorado State. The subject of his thesis: "The Different Effects of Cultural Methods on Bathyplectes Curculionis and Its Host," a study of one species of parasite wasp. "I've always been curious about insects," Thomas says. "You could spend one full year on one insect and still not know all there is to know about it." Thomas' fascination has been an abiding one; he took up football only to get a scholarship. After completing...
...place where I had spent four years of my life. I walked around, rubbed the couch where I had sat dozens of times and spotted that cookie jar shaped like a pumpkin. The stagehands keep it filled with real junk food - Oreos, Lorna Doones, the kind of crap that Wasp mothers keep on hand for kiddie snacks. Mary with her dia betes and me with my weight problems, we used to love to open that jar and just sniff the sugary smell. We'd say, 'Oh, wow!' then put the lid back on. So that...
...Peace. Over ten years ago Heller explained: "The hero is the antithesis of Yossarian-20 years later." Of his Syrian-American bombardier in Catch-22 he had written: "It was a vile and muddy war, and Yossarian could have lived without it-lived forever, perhaps." Of his WASP business executive, Bob Slocum, in Something Happened, Heller might have written: It was a vile and muddy peace, and Slocum was dying of it-dying in slow motion...
...them. Take this Kung Fu, for example. They say that Bruce Lee died of an overdose of marijuana. What really happened was he smoked a great joint, got a great high-and beat himself up." The difference between whites and blacks? "If you go up to a Midwest WASP and ask the time, he'll look at his watch and say 'Quarter of four.' You go in the ghetto and ask a black guy and he'll say, 'Do I look like Big Ben to you, turkey...