Word: brahminism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretty quick two hours, an encouraging sign for any theater presentation. If you've never been to a Pudding show before, get a taste of Overtures. You won't go tapioca like the giggling Brahmin businessman sitting next to you, but there's enough solid visual comedy and quality music to pull you through and give you something impressive to write your mother. I chose not to write mine, mainly because I jotted down all the good puns to spring on her as originals when I go home for vacations...
...could one imagine a connection between Santayana and Jones's cult? Santayana--the philosopher of the American consciousness, the dissector of our spiritual heritage; the rationalist Harvard professor, the ascetic hermit; the half-Spanish, half-Boston Brahmin writer who knew the spirit of this country so well yet found it troubling and oppressive--what did Jim Jones see in his words? Surely there is some subterranean meaning in this strange confluence of philosophies...
...Robert Weiss of Harvard's Laboratory of Community Psychiatry accurately observed, "There is one social style in one block and a very different style in another block a couple of hundred yards away." Styles can also change rapidly. In The Late George Apley, Novelist John P. Marquand described a Brahmin who stepped out of his new house in Boston's South End and saw a man across the street fetching his newspaper...
...shirtsleeves. The Brahmin judged, correctly as it turned out, that the neighborhood was on the way downhill; he sold his house immediately...
Originally The Country Club had been founded as a place where Boston gentlemen could congregate for recreation "free from the annoyance of horse railroads." One Boston Brahmin had stated, "The purpose of the Club was that it should be a place for the men of Massachusetts to get away from their women folk...