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  • Adam is sometimes shocked by other character's non Waspish ways which is another part of illustrating Adam's character, but that never derails the story.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Karen Burnham 2010

  • Adam is sometimes shocked by other character's non Waspish ways which is another part of illustrating Adam's character, but that never derails the story.

    A Beautifully Written Historical Future Karen Burnham 2010

  • Candice had that Waspish, preppy look that appealed to all the Kennedy men.

    Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009

  • Candice had that Waspish, preppy look that appealed to all the Kennedy men.

    Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009

  • Candice had that Waspish, preppy look that appealed to all the Kennedy men.

    Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009

  • The Bush administration, which may initially have seemed the most conventionally Waspish group to hold the presidency in decades, was ripe for conversion to Weekly Standard radicalism.

    Scott McConnell: Where is the Antiwar Movement? 2008

  • She gives those of us with a Waspish, Christian, non-Muslim background a chance to learn just a tiny bit about what it's like to live as a Muslim in post-9/11 United States.

    Labor Day Reading: Understanding the life of an American Muslim Diane Silver 2006

  • She gives those of us with a Waspish, Christian, non-Muslim background a chance to learn just a tiny bit about what it's like to live as a Muslim in post-9/11 United States.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Diane Silver 2006

  • She gives those of us with a Waspish, Christian, non-Muslim background a chance to learn just a tiny bit about what it's like to live as a Muslim in post-9/11 United States.

    Archive 2006-09-03 Diane Silver 2006

  • I was as Jewish as any of the alter kockers—that's “old codgers” in gentile—present at the Kosher Nosh, but my surname Blair originally Blaum but changed at Ellis Island, and my somewhat Waspish appearance often have me mistaken for a gentile.

    Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

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