Word: brahmin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such ostentation seems out of keeping with the solemnity and surviving Brahmin spirit of the university, whose early masters forbade the setting of "bonfires and illuminations" or "making tumultuous or indecent noises." And some Harvard faces have gone crimson at the prospect. Historian Oscar Handlin was quoted as saying, "I would have liked it to be more scholarly and less show biz." The hoopla and hustle will include the licensed sale of memorabilia like goldplated watches to pull a few more dollars into Harvard's $3.5 billion endowment (already the biggest of any private U.S. university...
...President Roosevelt's national initiative, it directly opposed the ideals of his predecessor, A. Lawrence Lowell. Although Lowell shared a birthplace with Conant, his Boston was about as different from Conant's as one could imagine. Born and raised on Marlborough Street in the Back Bay, Lowell was Boston Brahmin through and through...
Several dozen pages cover former treasurer George Putnam Jr. '49, a Boston mutual-fund mogul with family ties to every Brahmin from Mac Bundy to A. Lawrence Lowell. Vigeland notes such amazing facts as that old George passed up the chocolate chip cookies at lunch, and lets him get away with comments like, "Being on the Corporation is fun. You meet interesting people. And it's a way of having something in common with your children who are in school...
...environs can't compare to New York in terms of upbeat culture. This place is probably not even like Los Angeles if a bopping nightlife is what you seek. But don't let first sights hold your glance too long. Despite provincial images fostered by a thin layer of Brahmin aristocracy, Boston has not separated itself from other cultural hotspots...
...good guy everybody (except maybe a few snobs and eggheads) wants to be, the American as seen by the American. This is a very different sort of leader from the aristocratic Franklin Roosevelt, the Hudson River squire, or the dashing young Jack Kennedy, the rich Irish- American nouveau Brahmin--two rare species. The many Americans who revered them did not for a moment imagine that these magnetic figures were simply themselves called to Washington...