Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observe them acutely but not so far in that he made any special commitments to their inhabitants. His first great success had been 1934's Appointment in Samarra, a savage little study of how a few careless social gestures could destroy a pillar of smalltown, upper-middle-class WASP society. O'Hara knew that world well, but was not truly of it, being Irish and Catholic and the son of a man desperately insecure about his social footing. Later, when O'Hara turned to New York cafe society for the setting of Butterfield 8, he was also...
...ceiling on meat prices. Groups throughout the U.S. continue to protest. FIT (Fight Inflation Together), a nationwide organization of housewives, plans to push forward with its meat boycott this week. Among local anti-meat campaigns launched recently are STOP (Stop These Outrageous Prices) in northern New Jersey, WASP (Women Against Soaring Prices) in Delaware, SCRIMP (Save Cash, Reduce Immediately Meat Prices) in Boston and LAMP (Ladies Against Meat Prices) in several states. UPD (Until Prices Drop) is collecting grocery receipts to mail to the President. Governor Reagan of California, the nation's most productive farm state, was so alarmed...
This is more or less what has happened to the 1958 hit Two for the Seesaw-except that the blender breaks down from time to time. The hero, Jerry Ryan, is a WASP lawyer on separation leave from 1) Omaha and 2) his wife. Ken Howard, who plays this role, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to New York Mayor John Vliet Lindsay. The heroine, Gittel Mosca (Michele Lee), is an artsy Jewish girl on the lam from The Bronx to Greenwich Village. She is spunky and sassy, but inwardly scared. Out of mutual need, the pair promptly share bedded bliss...
...seven years of his directorship, Thomas Hoving's image has described a remarkable parabola. He began with a lot: youth (at 35, the youngest director in the Met's history), vast enthusiasm, intelligence, a growing reputation as a medievalist and solid backing from the WASP establishment. He was, to resurrect a headline from his Central Park days, A HAPPENING CALLED HOVING, the epitome of New Frontier bounce, flair and pragmatic cheek. Today, he is besieged in the museum whose physical shape, and concomitant policies, he has irrevocably defined and changed...
GIVE AMERICAN film makers a drop of truth, and they'll try to expand it into oceans. A decade ago, the West was little more than a prairie or canyon-pitted vista through which beleaguered Wasp heroes played out moral fantasies. Justice was simple, a matter of everyone sticking to the place they could carve for themselves on the land, and ethics were administered with guns...