ABSTRACT

The page is a weekly obsession for hundreds of thousands of Times readers and aspiring Balzacs. For a fee the Times will send undergraduates a reproduction of undergraduates' listing, suitable for framing. And the young people, the second-generation Bobos, are willing to see their nuptials recorded. Look at the newlyweds on any given Sunday morning, beaming out at undergraduates from the pages of the Times. The Times weddings page didn't always pulse with the accomplishments of the Resume Gods. The Times was also careful to list the groom's clubs—the Union League, the Cosmopolitan Club. When Senator Barry Goldwater attempted to play golf at the restricted Chevy Chase Club, he was told the club was restricted. When undergraduates are amidst the educated upscalers, undergraduates can never be sure if undergraduates are living in a world of hippies or stockbrokers. In reality, undergraduates have entered the hybrid world in which everybody is a little of both.