Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps no advantage, though it does expand your perspective on the world. More importantly, however, if you are homosexual, there are unending and far greater disadvantages to denying it. It might be nice to enjoy (or to continue to enjoy) all the unearned advantages of straight white heterosexual WASP men. But if the absence of such advantages is cause for regret, at least it's a condition that's widely shared. No, coming out is not easy at first, but your life can't really begin until you start. So get going. You have no other chance...
...churches that are booming -- Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago, for example, or the 429 congregations cloned from Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, California -- do not resemble buttoned-down temples of Wasp propriety. Ministers themselves talk of being "customer oriented" and attend seminars to become "church growth" experts. Jeans are as welcome as suits and ties; theater seats replace pews. Instead of using hymnbooks, congregations sing lively, if saccharine, choruses with words projected on a screen. Worship may include skits, audience participation or applause...
Students say Eliot has forsaken its stereotype as the WASP house where the slogan "Are you on the guest list?" marks the T-shirts which residents sport beneath Polo button-downs...
...Being that [my roommate's] mother is an extremely well-bred WASP, she would probably not want to know that she neglected to imbue her son with a sense of hygiene--but that's something we worked on with him freshman and sophomore years," the contestant said...
...were dancing around the campfire in loincloths," he recalls. "It was both ironic and offensive." To fit in, Jacobs largely rejected his Indian background during his adolescent years. Today, however, the Connecticut home he shares with two children and his art historian wife Mary Jane Clark ("a full-blooded Wasp," he notes) boasts a room filled with Indian keepsakes. The family will soon be relocating to the Washington area, where Clark will find an old schoolmate: her dorm counselor at Wellesley, Hillary Rodham Clinton...