Word: brahminism
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...longstanding belief among impresarios that for psychological reasons, audiences do not respond so well to women players, because the "conflict and domination" struggle with an instrument is strictly man's work. When attractive Doriot Dwyer was appointed first flutist of the Boston Symphony 14 years ago, one proper Brahmin sent her a package with a letter demanding that she hide her exposed ankles with the enclosed pair of thick grey stockings. She demurred, and at least one Boston man is glad; since the arrival of the ladies, he has taken to watching the concerts through binoculars...
...second term in office, has been one of the state's most effective and most popular chief executives. By any realistic standard, he is considered all but unbeatable for reelection. And Attorney General Edward Brooke, 46, a Negro, seems likely to win the U.S. Senate seat of Republican Brahmin Leverett Saltonstall, 74, who is retiring next January after 22 years in office...
...Peabody tirelessly stumped the state, chopping away at Collins' "public-be-damned" redevelopment program and recounting his own liberal record as Governor. Responding sympathetically to Peabody's image of ingenuous honesty, the voters gave him 321,035 votes to 265,213 for Collins. A third candidate, Boston Brahmin Thomas Boylston Adams, mounted an antiwar campaign, but got only 51,483 votes...
From his tweeds to his twang, Saltonstall is every inch a Brahmin-the last of the Massachusetts species in high elective office. Tall and erect, with the kind of homeliness that radiates integrity, Salty is famed among Senate colleagues for the Bostonian virtues of unfailing courtesy and caution. On one occasion, when asked by a reporter for his opinion on a foreign policy issue, the taciturn Senator replied: "No comment, and that's off the record...
Sloop Trim. In public office for 44 of the past 46 years-six as Governor and 21 as Senator-Saltonstall reflected the Brahmin's distaste for the spectacular and the controversial. But few men have worked harder or more competently in the public interest...