Word: brahmanical
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Ketcham was sick in Peter Bent Brahman Hospital and needed 16 transfusions during the height of his illness. Unable to meet the costs, he asked the Law School for aid. The Dean's Office says the Dormitory Council responded by rounding up volunteers to replace the blood in the Boston blood bank that had been pumped into Ketcham...
...joint commission was formed in 1947, a few months after aftosa had spread from infected Brahman bulls, imported from Brazil, over 16 states of central and southern Mexico. At first the commission's chief weapon was the rifle sanitaria: cattle in the infected zones were mass-slaughtered...
...Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister's black-haired, bouncy wife, is the daughter of a Hindu Brahman turned Christian. She herself became a devout Moslem. To free Moslem women from purdah, she organized the white-pajamaed, pigtailed Pakistan Women's National Guard. "See these women?" she says, "they were in purdah once. Do you see any purdah now?" Married 17 years, Liaquat and the Begum have two sons, Ashraf, 12, and Akbar, 9, both aspiring musicians...
Partly this is because Gandhi blessed him. Partly it has to do with a tradition of Indian life since Buddha-the imaginative appeal of a highborn Brahman, such as Nehru, giving up a life of ease to join a popular cause such as liberation from British rule. Finally, the largely illiterate masses of India, not yet beyond a feudal horizon, still look up to their ruler as a child looks to its parent...
...glance at the high, cool beauties of Kashmir, the shaded Western luxuries of India's rich, and the dark, woebegone face of an Indian waif circled by three buzzing flies. It watches a family of Untouchables eating a nameless dirty mush, then joins a poor but caste-proud Brahman for a chaste meal of fruit and vegetables, arranged, as elegantly as a still-life painting, on a large plantain leaf...