Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old WASP middle-class Southerner. I liked Ike, backed Nixon against J.F.K., watched polls for Goldwater. worked for R.M.N. against H.H.H...
...hear again what it was like to grow up bright and sensitive in Lakewood, Ohio. His Stateside Army experi ence during World War II includes the familiar rich, condescending WASP and bullying lieutenant. Later comes a dis satisfying family life in Detroit. Adul tery and divorce are followed by New York sex-and-guilt games and the price one pays in lost work time. For the man nered fictional version, see Gold's novel Salt...
...very best, as in The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss can not only enforce sobriety and respect among his readers; he manages to convey some sense of the strengths and well-harnessed passions that underlie the propriety of his WASP characters. There has always been a strain of unintended comedy in this kind of mannerly fiction, however. The habits and rituals of Auchincloss's well-bred people-moneyed Protestants in the backwaters of the Eastern Establishment -are in themselves no more ridiculous than those of other groups. But the author is so solemn about them that when his control...
...President's selections were obvious enough (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and the like). They spread across a movie infantry-platoon ethnic spectrum. As New York Times Columnist Red Smith noted, Nixon "saluted young and old, white and black, Latin and Nordic, lefthander and righthander, Catholic and WASP, Jew and American Indian." No one would be offended, except perhaps a handful of Liechtensteiner and Tibetan diamond buffs...
Willie Bouldin, co-chairman of the conference, said Saturday that the major focus of the meeting to find ways of altering the WASP-oriented educational establishment so that it can better benefit the needs of black urban children...