European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes july 1978 Russell Baker new York not in new York every one belongs to minority this gives you Pride in your roots and encourages you to fed everybody else is picking on you which b one of the Basic pleasures of the new York sex my group is called the which is an acronym Mac word standing for an Glo Saxon i did not want to join the i was press ganged into the reason i didst want to join was that the wasps Are the Only minority who cannot Nave any All other minorities Are entitled to make a mess of Central Park once a year or Para Lyme traffic by marching on fifth they also enjoy the right to hold noisy demonstrations and Tell All the Best ethnic All the wasps can Tell Are Harvard this is because All wasps Are supposed to have gone to or at least or to act As if they even u they in Stead of marching Down fifth Avenue or eat ing wonderful old Wasp food in annual Cen trial Park Wasp wasps have to sit around Musty clubs Reading the Yale alumnae bulletin and talking about their an 1 have never liked clubs since i was sneered at in one in Baltimore Many years ago for wearing a Green double breasted suit with a red Stripe and in Matching two tone talking about is very upon first coming to new i used to do it frequently among friends like Moynihan and when they reminisced about ancestors who had been beaten by tortured by fascists and shot by the Black and i told them about my great great aunt who had been fatally gnawed by a this did not please Moynih Nan or it was bad form for a Wasp to have an ancestor with nutrient Appeal to Wasp were supposed to spend their time knitting samplers and extol Ling the Virtues of sexual repression and Brooks Brothers friends who belonged to other minorities seemed to think it was cheap for a Wasp to talk of interesting it was useless to protest that i did not want to be a Wasp in didst even qualify since my Normal Hue was closer to Gray than efforts to dont worry about what to Wear if in Yugoslavia Yugoslavia a thousands of nudists Are using the hospitality of communist Yugoslavia to spend their vacations in the Buff on the beaches and in the forests along the Adriatic when nudists vacationing in countries such As Italy and Spain were obliged to seek isolated Beach Yugoslavia realized that nudism could be Good and promoted official nudist centers with All in the nudism was practice in strictly cordoned off now there Are few resorts without an informal place where nud or naturists As they prefer to be can with this relaxed attitude toward the nudists have also made conces Sions they now pose willingly for photog a n order to do a number of places among them this re sort about 30 Miless South of the italian Border have become popular with foreign especially As Well As dutch and nearly 70 percent of nudists in registered Camps Are regular West German couple Anna and Hans jeckle have been staying so Long at the solaris nudist resort on the istrian Peninsula of Lanterna that they have weeded a Patch of land around their trailer and have a Garden of their dutch couple Betty and wander Deloar have been Corning to the same place for they come Early every year and leave in late spending their time Mak ing friends and hosting other most nudists Are with or without the age of most ranges from 30 to 40 the second largest age group comprises elderly there Are an estimated 40 million professed nudists in the world Yugoslavia is pub Lishing a Well appointed Magazine called a with color photographs and lists of naturist facilities in the is welcoming the escape destiny with a frail joke about my in a not a Wasp Cut no in new York one had to belong to a i and the Only one i came close to fitting was the there was no my who is Pink and was allowed to join the Wom a group which qualifies As a minority in new although they Are in the numerical and can talk about being oppressed whenever the mood is on her and be sure of sympathetic u she wants to reciprocate our friends invitations to pigs Trotters or Cannelloni by inviting them to corned beef and they respect her for loyalty to her edible but if invite them for a feast remembered from my own tradition heaping plat ters of boiled kale and regard me As a traitor to wasps Are not allowed to like interesting this seemed like tyranny fit one be Gan to feel Why should i be forced to Wear tweeds and pinstripes to sit in which i Reading alumnae which made me weep with boredom if others could serve Ravioli and by Lues to a Why did on my table Merit nothing but contempt Why did i have to have a great great aunt who knitted samplers in Stead of getting gnawed by a Bear the worst part was the sexual repression that one was supposed to exhibit on All Possi ble on second it want the sexual it was the inability to have a Mother like everybody members of All the other minority groups had mothers who had driven smothered them with worried about cherished ridiculous Hopes for trained them in guilt and tyrannize them in emotional family in they had Moth As a i was not permitted a attempts to prove that i had one were met with knowing glances passed surreptitiously among my what does a Wasp know about mothers an old lady wearing tweeds and pinstripes and telling Harvard jokes Call that a Mother my Mother did not take it Well when i told her she would have to Start Reading alumnae in going to fix you a big plate of chitterling and boiled she that dieting they All do up there in new York is driving you just a Little boiled cardboard and a can of i in a Wasp after wards she insisted on stuffing All my shirts by across Bouse 5 dance step 8 israeli dance 12 conquer 14 moslem Noble 15 work by Tacitus u location 17 cheer for the ii strikes 20 Rouse to vigilance 23 Buckeye state 24 indolent 25 Bui that not paid 21 past a papal veil n breakfast item 3z including everything m Charles Lamb 3s cisterns is Bear upon 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