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...WASP Meets the Westerner...
...institutional stability vanishes, one no longer need frolic through WASP theme parks to claw one’s way to the top. Other avenues to power and high society avail themselves. And while identity politics have by no means demolished these hallowed institutions, “diversity” is upon them. Just over a generation ago, Irish Catholics, Jews and blacks were not considered worthy of membership. A woman’s place was, well, in her own club, the Chilton-—not in the den of men, in any event. At Myopia Hunt Club on Boston?...
...Prestige-wise, the Algonquin ranks second to the Somerset. Family bloodlines are not as consequential as the corporate credit lines. Capitalism proves itself in the Algonquin to be the great equalizer—in the early ’80s, the club’s membership was predominantly WASP, but today its thousand members reflect the growing racial diversity of the city’s corporate population...
...topic of the now notorious Mister Chu. The comic strip's readership has spiked from five people (the artists, their mothers and the AAA censor) to approximately 12 people, according to a recent Crimson poll. And, apparently a compromise has been negotiated wherein Mister Chu will morph into a WASP. Thank God for WASPs. In this age of political correctness, where would the art of ethnic lampooning be without them...
...interest in athletics. Tradition is crucial in the clan; some ancestors arrived in America via Jamestown in 1607, and before relocating to Texas, the Darlings were a "landed family" in South Carolina and Alabama. The name "Sterling Price Adams Darling Jr." is itself an heirloom, not a pseudo-WASP creation of his parents. It's no wonder that the modern day Darling looks and acts like a relic from the antebellum South. "I don't even own a pair of jeans," he blithely asserts. He tempers that statement with the admission that he did own one pair sometime in high...