Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convoluted script of Scenes From American Life, gives the feeling that the wrong life is being staged. Despite the confusing script, quite a few scenes are very entertaining and the acting in sometimes excellent. The American life that the play presents is the life of the upper-class WASP, specifically those in Buffalo...
Their marriages break, they drink too much, the parents and kids don't communicate, and the WASP next starts coming apart. As the preps watch a tennis match, one defines tennis language, "Love means nothing...
...depiction of our natural resources here in northern Minnesota. As a small child, trains thundered past my house day and night, immigrants and sons of immigrants worked around the clock sending iron to the steel mills out East, winning the war, and feeling the pockets of eastern wasp parasites, so they could establish trust funds and send their sons to Harvard...
...fiction. Chaim Potok, a chronicler of the factions within American Jewish culture (The Chosen, My Name Is Asher Lev), assiduously attempts to freshen the milieu: his title character and narrator is a thoughtful, believable preadolescent girl; her father is a celebrated radical journalist from an old-line, plutocratic Wasp family, her mother a Jewish emigre...
...girl he made pregnant in Georgetown days, is the boyishly charming and faintly untrustworthy Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. After much mischance, Jack and Kitty do return to Buffalo, the Snow Ball and each other's arms. The climax is, predictably, anticlimax, a sad proof that the old Wasp world is beyond recapture...