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ALLEN GINSBERG IN AMERICA, by Jane Kramer. Earnest, articulate and somehow despairingly sanguine, Allen Ginsberg has evolved from a minor poet to major cult figure-a kind of one-man air ferry between bohemian and Brahmin traditions. Wisely, perhaps, Author Kramer concentrates on the life rather than the works...
Moldy Chestnuts. What is expected of John Adams, intellectual Brahmin of Boston? Adams (William Daniels) must be thin lipped, disdainful, fanatical, puritanical, rapier tongued, and cordially disliked for rubbing his lazy-brained colleagues the wrong way with his indefatigable insistence on freedom. The audience may color him blueblood and relish his thwarted Harvardian desire to correct Jefferson's English from "inalienable" to "unalienable." And how is Ben Franklin (Howard Da Silva) portrayed? Foxy good sense, a plaguy gout, a dash of smarmy lechery and a few jokes about electricity-that is all one needs for Franklin. And that...
Coolidge was born a Boston Brahmin (his father Julian Lowell Coolidge was a mathematics professor here) and looks it. Still handsomely distinguished at 54, he looks and talks like the epitome of a well-bred gentleman. It is easy, as he leans back in his chair reflecting on a question, to see him as the image of Wisdom and Moderation--the kind of man you could entrust a Cezanne collection to with the assurance that it would be put to the best of all possible uses...
...exodus to the suburbs had not left Boston entirely in the hands of the Populists, the traditionalists, and those who still maintain a defensive immigrant mentality. The election of Kevin White, a somewhat sophisticated and cosmopolitan politician, as Mayor and the election of John L.Saltonstall '38, a true Boston Brahmin, and of Thomas Atkins, a Negro, to the Boston City Council indicates otherwise. And other observers had wondered if Mrs. Hicks' old-fashioned "house party and hand-shake" campaign style, and her emotional appeals to parochialism and selfishness would be as effective now as in the past. Yesterday's results...
...Louis and unreconstructed admirers of expert, well-rounded baseball teams were rooting for the Cardinals. Just about everybody else was discovering why the Red Sox-a 200-to-1 shot for the American League pennant and a 2-to-3 underdog in the Series-had cost Boston its Brahmin cool all summer long. As the Sox, down one game to three, incredibly fought to tie it all up at 3-3, the carillon of Boston's Park Street Church pealed out The Impossible Dream, the city's No. 1 ecclesiastical fan-Richard Cardinal Gushing-bestowed a blessing...