Word: brahminism
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THOUGH THE Democratic battle has attracted most of the media attention so far, the Republican contest between old-line Brahmin guru Elliot L. Richardson '41 and self-made-millionaire-businessman-cum-populist-conservative Ray Shamie has provided a more substantive debate on President Reagan and the future of the ailing state Republican organization...
THOUGH THE Democratic battle has attracted most of the media attention so far, the Republican contest between old-line. Brahmin guru Elliot L. Richardson '41 and self-made-millionaire-businessman-cum-populist-conservative Ray Shamie has provided a more substantive debate on President Reagan and the future of the ailing state Republican organization...
...debate over taxes has been symptomatic of this entire camping, which has become a contest between members of opposite wings of the Republican part. Richardson, an old-line Brahmin who has held doses of cabinet posts, including Secretary of Defense, has advocated a more liberal approach to social and foreign policy issue, supporting ERA, abortion rights, busing, and the nuclear freeze, and opposing U.S. military involvement in Central America...
...ECCENTRIC woman of Brahmin origins, Olive has elevated suffragism to the level of a personal cult. Olive and Basil become enthralled by Verena, an earnest, sweet-looking, if not quite articulate enough character to make plausible her subsequent fame as an orator...
Historically, Harvard has always been on the vanguard of endowment management. Paul C. Cabot '21, a tough, profane Brahmin and the uncle of Walter Cabot, served as Harvard's treasurer from 1948 to 1965 and quintupled the endowment. He demanded complete discretion in managing Harvard's money, arguing that you can't invest by committee. Cabot shifted more than half of the endowment out of downtown Boston real-estate and high-grade bonds, and into common stocks--considered, at the time, a radically new strategy for a private university...