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...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...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Entertainment is Up When the Lights are Down | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: a Man of Certitudes | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...most intimately involved with her father. She has published three well-reviewed novels, and worked as a journalist for Newsweek. In 1977, she wrote the cover story Newsweek ran on Cheever that painted him as a cultivated literary bonhomme exuding all the charm and complacency of the Boston Brahmin upbringing he never...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: The Lives of John Cheever | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

...editor of the Boston Globe, the city was considered a journalistic backwater, and the paper was not rated as even the best of the six in town. Its news coverage had lost the crusading spirit of its early days as a "people's daily" fighting Brahmin interests. The editorial page featured wambling, civics-text platitudes. There were advertisements on Page One. Winship's arduous task was made more delicate by family diplomacy: his predecessor was his father, Laurence Winship, who had dominated the paper for 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Twilight and Dawn on the Globe | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...Shamie] is a son of immigrants; he was not born to wealth and privilege," Reagan said in an apparent slap at Kerry, a graduate of Exeter Academy and Yale University with Brahmin roots...

Author: By Michael W. Hirdchorn, | Title: Reagan Woos Youth at Rally | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

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