Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pioneering steamboats of nearly two centuries ago. Add to those themes the national desire to win, to be first. A natural consequence was the historic landing of men on the moon, an event that meant to Eric Hoffer the triumph of the squares, to Norman Mailer the consummation of WASP values. But now, not even two years after Apollo 11, the nation seems to find that kind of victory somewhat hollow...
MANY Chicagoans talk of the suburb of Evanston as the straitlaced capital of the North Shore-national headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the stodgy bastion of proper matrons and upright WASP gentlemen, all of them scarcely more liberal than the Chicago Tribune's late Colonel Robert R. McCormick. In fact, as City Planner Richard Carter says, Evanston is "a microcosm of a larger city, diversified in income, ethnically, racially and every other way." It ranks high in affluence: a $12,200 a year median income in 1968. Yet Evanston's 80,000 population includes...
...Wasp group that Norman Mailer [Feb. 8] has attacked with such venom, may I say that I resent being lumped into a segment of society that is so widely diversified that it links the richest with the poorest and the sometimes not-so-saintly with the so-called very angelic crowd...
...green glasses when she patted his shiny bald dome. I knew, though, that somewhere behind those shades Luke was figuring exactly how many kilowatts it would take to straighten out that Afro and melt those buttons. "She is a nice girl," he hissed to me. "But she is a Wasp...
...haunted WASP protagonists of John Speicher's novels seem to have a fatal weakness for social causes they cannot call their own. In Looking for Baby Paradise, a young Ivy League Lancelot risks life and sanity as a youth-recreation worker among the warring street gangs of New York's Washington Heights. Now in Didman, Speicher's second novel, an alcoholic publishing executive loses himself in a black-militant plan to attack the New York Stock Exchange...