Word: brahmin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Irish needed their culture a hundred years ago. It was the only frame of reference they had during their war with Boston's Brahmins. Now the war is over, although neither side emerged the victor, and the truce has brought with it a free intermingling of the two, and an erosion of the Boston Irish community. The assimilation has affected other ethnic groups as well, to the point where Boston's suburbs are a melange of nationalities (with blacks and Spanish-speaking people, of course, neatly excluded), all whipped into one bland, suburban culture. The Brahmin oppression is dead...
...went straight to Wall Street from Wellesley (where she was Phi Beta Kappa with a major in economics) and talked herself into becoming the first woman admitted to the executive-training program at the Brahmin brokerage of Dominick & Dominick. "Frankly," she recalls, "it was an advantage to be a woman. Customers remembered me." She wisely carved out a specialty-savings and loan associations-and after ten years was a recognized expert, handling $15 million underwritings. But it was time to leave. "The doors were closed for a partnership. To be a woman entrepreneur you have to own the store." With...
...experience can account for some of it, but not all. To explain it, many of her friends go back to a story that began in Cleveland in 1955. Beverly was making her first tour with the New York City Opera. She met Peter B. Greenough, a tall, burly Boston Brahmin who was financial editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a paper partly owned by his family. Peter could do nothing right, or so it seemed. First he winked at her. "My God," thought Beverly, "that's not a very novel approach." Next he sent her a mash note...
When he assumed the task, switching from what must have seemed the comparative serenity of his job as Under Secretary of State, Richardson was briefly billed as "Supersecretary," a mild-mannered Brahmin with the blandly earnest good looks of Clark Kent, and an administrative near genius invulnerable to any misadventure short of an adversary wielding Kryptonite. In the months since, he has become one of the three strong men of the Nixon Cabinet-with Attorney General John Mitchell and Treasury Secretary John Connally. Probably as much as any man can, he has brought order to his massive fief, although...
...tradition. But the State Street bankers, and their St. Grottlesex classmates who dominated the Faculty, were willing to withhold judgment. For a time, things seemed to be working out, and the angry murmurs in the lounges of the Somerset and Union clubs died down somewhat. But to the traditional Brahmin, religion has always been more lip service than piety, and the idea that a Harvard President should be fanatical enough about his almost evangelical creed to stake the good name of the University on its preservation was abhorrent. When Pusey made the Christian purity of the Church a cause cerebra...