Word: wasps
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Ivory Tower The Wasp Club, collar popping cokeheads
STILLER: And yet Bob is definitely playing a character. Bob is not at all a Wasp, and yet you totally...
...does a Brearley Beaver recognize her Hotchkiss hubby when surrounded by a veritable sea of argyle? To spot the old-school WASP in a crowd of drones, look for the traits you can’t buy in J. Crew: a hint of lockjaw, an enviable air of aloofness, and a faint crease of contempt around the eyes. If all else fails, check the nametag: if it says Wigglesworth, you’ve got yourself genuine prep...
...That goes for even the newest arrivals, like Lan, the mainland-Chinese woman whose entry into the Wong family upsets the delicate balance among the novel's leading voice, Chinese-American Carnegie, his Wasp wife Blondie, and their two adopted Asian daughters and Eurasian biological son. Not even Lan knows what she's doing with the Wongs, though everyone knows why she's there. Carnegie's ?ber-Chinese mother arranged for Lan's immigration in her will, and Mama Wong is the sort of person who gets her way, even in death. (Though she has died horribly of Alzheimer...
...born at the intersection of two elites--the Eastern Wasp establishment and the Texas oiligarchy. He gimme'd his way through America's top educational institutions. In his 40s, he was still a kid, hanging around his father's White House with not much to do. A decade later, without actually winning the most votes, he was President himself. The average gas-station attendant struggled harder to get where he or she is than did George W. Bush. Then came Sept...