Word: brahminism
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...