Word: brahmin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became an addiction for him long ago. It isn't for want of a warm personal life. He remains gooey over his wife of 21 years, Kathleen Emmet Darman, a writer who has a Ph.D. in literature. They met, by his account, as teenagers at a "Beacon sociable," where Brahmin calves learned to dance under proper supervision. He sought for years to get her attention, even using ploys that could later be called Darmanesque. She gently scoffs at this romantic notion, conceding only that they met as graduate students at a dinner he arranged for that purpose. They live with...
...with his former aide on every major decision; he has been included in closed-door strategy sessions for two months. The nondoctrinaire Darman rose from minor White House paper shuffler to assistant to the President and then No. 2 at Treasury despite his association with known liberals like Boston Brahmin Elliot Richardson (both resigned during Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre...
...have grown up, like onetime 97-lb. weaklings, to take their revenge by attaching themselves to the macho men of the '80s. Springsteen, Stallone . . . Schwarzenegger! Who'd have thought it? That an Austrian body builder with gap teeth and a goofy moniker could become Hollywood's Brahmin of brawn...
This stern upbringing owed as much to New England Puritanism as it did to Greek ethnicity. Dr. Nicholas Zervas, a close friend of Dukakis', describes Euterpe as a "really patrician woman. She would have made a wonderful Brahmin." Unlike many immigrant families, the Dukakises were not religious, supporting the Greek Orthodox Church primarily for cultural reasons. If anything, the family was governed by what Bakalar calls the "quintessential Protestant ethic. Whatever gifts you received, you had to give back. They really believed that money corrupted...
...Stanford-educated Bok is certainly different from his predecessors. Unlike James B. Conant '14, a Brahmin often seen as a strongman at odds with the Harvard Corporation, and Nathan M. Pusey '28, who was never able to escape an image created by the student protests of 1969, Bok has been more successful at constructing a consensus than the others...