Word: brahminism
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...mention money in pockets or parents in tow, Cambridge offers a fair number of alternatives to strict meat and potatoes. Ferdinand's offers small portions, overpriced but served in a pleasant atmosphere. Check it out once if you can stand the $30 per person charge and heavy Brahmin concentration at this Mt. Auburn St joint...
...director of the Summer School, wrote the introduction, which chronicles the program's 112-year history. He touches briefly on its four-year hiatus in the '40s. wrought by the Axis attempt at world hegemony; he then notes, ironically, the institution's own subsequent turn towards imperialism. The small Brahmin-oriented school of the Depression years now infiltrates "forty-six states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico...the Virgin Islands [and] a record 66 countries...
...Boston Herald American was dying, it seemed, even before it was born. Founded in June 1972 as the merger of a played-out Hearst tabloid, the Record American, with a once elegant Brahmin broadsheet that had gone broke, the Herald Traveler, the fledgling paper lost more than $35 million in its first decade. Its circulation, 238,000 as of last week, was less than half that of the rival Boston Globe (circ. 510,000), which runs away with four times the advertising linage. Thus almost no one in Boston was surprised when the Hearst Corp. announced that the Herald American...
There must be an attraction of opposites: Ernie Souchak (John Belushi), a pudgy, wily, chain-smoking columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Nell Porter (Blair Brown), a Boston Brahmin working alone in her Rocky Mountain aerie to save the American bald eagle. They must "meet cute": assigned to write a story on the Bird Woman of Wyoming, Souchak climbs the mountain at risk of life and lung, falls asleep in Nell's cabin and is poked awake by her. They must reverse roles: he cooks goulash while she overpowers a pair of hunters. They must adapt their skills...
...president of his own management firm, handling more than $8 billion in mutual funds. Putnam is a Boston Brahmin who inherited his father's flourishing business. Today Putnam, devotes considerable time and energy to philanthropic activities--16 to 20 hours a week alone on the essentially non-paying post of treasurer...