Word: wasps
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...side of its picturesque courtyard. The Lowell Dining Hall bustles today with countless students its namesake would have undoubtedly labored to keep out—thriving undergraduates who happen to be female, gay, African-American, Jewish, or anything other than members of Lowell’s own high-WASP caste. Hanging prominently on the far wall, a large portrait of the former president stares down and frowns...
...sums ranging from nearly $ 1 million for the most junior to $10 million-plus for the top echelon. This gilded dissolution followed months of infighting that had effectively deposed two chief executives of the firm. The first was a former Nixon Cabinet member with a Greek immigrant background but Wasp manners and connections; the other was a company insider who throughout his life, even at this Jewish-founded firm, believed himself a victim of anti-Semitism...
...Oscar nomination as the jaunty photographer and pal to reporter Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. But he could seethe too, winning acclaim as a psychopathic infantry officer in the 1956 World War II drama Attack and another Oscar nomination as the forbidding father of Cybill Shepherd's Wasp princess in The Heartbreak...
...45—The crew is at the Wasp for a party. A girl bumps some ridiculously sized lines of coke. Regan’s brother Erik (Jeffrey E. Hammerbacher ’05) falls down drunk in the middle of telling a story, but doesn’t stop talking. That’s commitment, folks. Colby has to take him home and quips: “At least he doesn’t live in the Quad.” Ba-zing...
...said. She's a WASP from Wellesley, but was into her third red wine, and some deep-in-the-bones Hibernian poetry was surfacing. "I wish Bo could see this...