But they were all privileged; and with the privilege went the duty to serve and to battle for the betterment of everyone, as best they knew how.
They tell me it's to remind them why they are working so hard; so their kids can do whatever they want". His sense is that the privileged go into law firms these days.
The four aspiring writers immediately fall into types: Jerry O'Connell nicely plays Douglas, a privileged go-getter who knows how to use his wealthy connections to network his way to success.
The daughter of a brigadier general, who went on to become treasurer of the local Conservative party, Al had a privileged childhood, going to boarding school but feeling isolated.
It is an obvious point that a profession so dominated by the privileged is going to struggle to understand issues that do not resonate with their lived experiences.
To make ends meet, Hailey plays in the pit orchestra for a terrible rock musical on Broadway and gives private oboe lessons to privileged kids, going home to a sizable but inconveniently located apartment.
Jimmy was the oldest child and was privileged to go with his father around the farm every day.
On his Web site, a gathering place for smaller donors, his privileged upbringing goes unmentioned, and in the recent "Rock the Vote" debate on CNN he said he had gone to "a college in New Haven, Connecticut".
Last Wednesday, at the invitation of Dr Ben Still (a neutrino physicist with a track record of physics/art activity), I was privileged to go to a private viewing of the Covariance exhibit at the London Canal Museum.
That claim gave rise to a long string of tabloid headlines, and helped turn what was known as the "preppie murder" case into a 1980's parable of privileged youth gone bad.
