Had to laugh today at a piece in the NYTimes Style section, on "A Privileged Life, Celebrating WASP Style: "The pages gleam with iconic photographs of über-WASPs — William F. Buckley, George Plimpton, Jackie Onassis..."
The last I looked, WASP stood for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant; Mr. Buckley is, while an Anglophile, a very prominent Catholic and Jacqueline Bouvier was both Catholic and French. Not that I'd deny any one admission to the WASP club; I just marvel at the power of assimilation--what the economists call the first-mover advantage.
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