Word: brahmin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rajiv Goswami, 20, does not have the obvious makings of a hero. His father is a postmaster, and he grew up with six doting sisters in a typically middle- class family belonging to the Brahmin caste, the highest in the Hindu social order. At Deshbandhu College in New Delhi, he was a mediocre student, and he hoped to start work as a refrigeration engineer after graduation...
Ramakant Chaturvedi, 26, showed no more tendency toward dramatic self- sacrifice. The son of a political-science teacher, he also came from a middle-class Brahmin family. After finishing college in Bhind, he tried in vain to get a government job but found it hopeless because of quotas that limit positions for upper castes...
Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Silber, for instance, poked at the Republicans when he quipped, "You know how to make an old Brahmin laugh--you tell him a joke when he's young...
Responding to cracks about the Brahmin bluebloods, Weld told the crowd, "It's no picnic being a Yankee WASP. Every other ethnic group is allowed to get drunk and eat interesting food and raise hell. I've got to sit around with all my cousins in dim lit musty rooms... reading the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and talking about my ancestors...
...politics; in Chicago, from local pro sports teams, although any item about talk hostess Oprah Winfrey will do; in St. Louis, from Busch brewery heirs; in Boston, from the corridors of the state house and city hall, the Kennedy clan and the remnants of the Cabot-and-Lowell Brahmin aristocracy. In every city there is an inevitable reliance on local TV personalities. A few elite names are good anywhere, anytime, whether they have done something recently or not. Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Onassis and Barbra Streisand are always news; so are Frank Sinatra and Teddy Kennedy and Sylvester Stallone. Some...