Word: wasps
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...Robert Frost: “To me, Frost is the ultimate American WASP voice...
...slavery. But they were also fascinated with the rainbow of faces they saw on campus. “How can there be so many different races here,” one student asked. She said people back home had warned her about “that thing called wasp.” These students grasped the power and the paradox of American history...
...counters that "being put off by Daniel's tolerance sounds like the opposite of Christianity." He picked an Episcopal priest, he says, because like Catholic clergy, "they have all that pageantry and mystery and wonder--but they can get married." Kenny was also intrigued by the particular country-club Wasp culture that he was introduced to through his Episcopal life partner of almost 24 years. (Yes, that would be a male partner, and no, that isn't helping Daniel among conservatives either. An AFA protest letter slams the show as being written by a "practicing homosexual...
...motorcycles and quickly transformed the MP5 into a revolutionary scooter based on airplane technology. The vehicle had a single steel chassis with a front fork modeled to look like landing gear. When Piaggio saw the first one in 1946, he exclaimed, ?Sembra una vespa! [It looks like a wasp...
...antique but resilient notion of Manhattan's glamorous otherness-of a WASP elite as tall, thin and gleaming as Deco skyscrapers, of an oasis of chic, an object of pride and envy for the white ethnics living in Brooklyn and the Bronx and Paramus and points west-has a lot to do with a 10-block patch of midtown real estate called Broadway. That's where the swells dressed up for the opening night of a Gershwin show starring Fred and Adele Astaire. The Woolworth Building, four miles down the street, was the Cathedral of Commerce; the village of legitimate...