Word: brahminism
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...experience can account for some of it, but not all. To explain it, many of her friends go back to a story that began in Cleveland in 1955. Beverly was making her first tour with the New York City Opera. She met Peter B. Greenough, a tall, burly Boston Brahmin who was financial editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a paper partly owned by his family. Peter could do nothing right, or so it seemed. First he winked at her. "My God," thought Beverly, "that's not a very novel approach." Next he sent her a mash note...
When he assumed the task, switching from what must have seemed the comparative serenity of his job as Under Secretary of State, Richardson was briefly billed as "Supersecretary," a mild-mannered Brahmin with the blandly earnest good looks of Clark Kent, and an administrative near genius invulnerable to any misadventure short of an adversary wielding Kryptonite. In the months since, he has become one of the three strong men of the Nixon Cabinet-with Attorney General John Mitchell and Treasury Secretary John Connally. Probably as much as any man can, he has brought order to his massive fief, although...
...tradition. But the State Street bankers, and their St. Grottlesex classmates who dominated the Faculty, were willing to withhold judgment. For a time, things seemed to be working out, and the angry murmurs in the lounges of the Somerset and Union clubs died down somewhat. But to the traditional Brahmin, religion has always been more lip service than piety, and the idea that a Harvard President should be fanatical enough about his almost evangelical creed to stake the good name of the University on its preservation was abhorrent. When Pusey made the Christian purity of the Church a cause cerebra...
...tradition. But the State Street bankers, and their St. Grottlesex classmates who dominated the Faculty, were willing to withhold judgement. For a time, things seemed to be working out, and the angry murmurs in the lounges of the Somerset and Union clubs died down somewhat. But to the traditional Brahmin, religion has always been more lip service than piety, and the idea that a Harvard President should be fanatical enough about his almost evangelical creed to stake the good name of the University on its preservation was abhorrent. When Pusey made the Christian purity of the Church a cause celebre...
...former president of the alumni association (1957-60), it is not surprising though that Richardson, a liberal Republican Brahmin from Beacon Hill, should be popularly mentioned. Descriptions of his qualifications from some supporters boil down to the fact that he is a "good man" and one need only look to his enthusiastic participation as a member of the Boston Council of the Boy Scouts of America in 1964 to confirm...