Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of Nixon picking Senator Edward Brooke as his running mate in 1972 [Dec. 13] would be a stroke of political genius! As a middle-of-the-road lifelong Republican WASP, I take heart that we would have an excellent chance with such a ticket...
...fetching candidate. His Senate voting record rates an 88% approval from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action-higher even than Ted Kennedy's-yet he projects the image of a moderate. Cool, reflective, middleclass, he has been accused of being a NASP -the Negro equivalent of UP, the WASP...
...literary logistics involved are, to put it mildly, colossal. Winds begins in the Washington of 1939, in the mind of Commander "Pug" Henry, an upright WASP of the old school who is about to be posted to Berlin as the new U.S. naval attaché. The book ends a few days after Pearl Harbor. By that time Henry has served Franklin Roosevelt as a special observer in Germany, Britain and Russia, acquired a pregnant Jewish daughter-in-law who is still trying to escape from Nazi Europe, refused to give his foolish, flighty wife a divorce, and seen his first...
...country where millions of people are living at below-subsistence level, where Ph.D.s cannot get jobs in their fields, whose soldiers have more trouble with drugs than with the enemy, where black people are still shot in the street, where prices are skyrocketing, you show us a happy WASP family living in its ivory tower. Dad must be proud...
...days to their adulterous 40s. Nichols opens with a series of kinetically hilarious sketches, starring Campus Smoothie Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and his pre-med buddy Sandy (Arthur Garfunkel). Cinematically, Nichols has never been less tricky or more acute. With dazzling focus he watches Sandy light upon an icily gorgeous WASP named Susan (Candice Bergen). The naif spills every intimate detail to his roommate; with metronomic two-timing, Jonathan moves in on Sandy and with Susan. But the Ivy rake has only one real amour: the mirror. Eventually he abandons Susan to Sandy, who marries her and lives happily never after...