Word: brahminism
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...Perhaps not entirely by coincidence, they did not meet. Flying in from the U.S. aboard a bright blue and white presidential Boeing 707 was the new U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam, Henry Cabot Lodge, back after 14 months for his second tour of duty. Bareheaded and smiling, the Brahmin promised his "best efforts" toward effecting a "true revolution which will make possible a new and better life for the Vietnamese people...
Gored-but Good. As a Boston Brahmin in a Texas corral (half of Johnson's twelve special assistants are Texans), Bundy is far from Johnson's ingroup. But he is fascinated, almost transfixed by the President's elemental energy and earthiness. He recognizes Johnson as the political supreme, and he has come a long way from the days when he thought of politics as a grubby little game. "A politician's life is like a bullfighter's," Bundy now says. "The bull...
...celebrated in B movies, featuring beer, broads and orgies. But last week, from Maine to Miami, beaches with a rolling surf were bristling with the sleek Fiberglas slabs. The staid old resort of Narragansett, R.I., has found itself inundated by board-bearing interlopers, who have discovered that the once Brahmin beach has just the right kind of waves. On Long Island, where 40 surfboards were sold in 1960, 4,000 have been snapped up this year, with the season just under way. Over 300 surfers were counted in the water recently at Gilgo Beach on Long Island's South...
Frances Perkins traced her ancestry to prerevolutionary Massachusetts, and from her birth, in 1882, was schooled in the genteel manner of the New England Brahmin, graduating from Mount Holyoke College in 1902. She then served as a social worker for the Episcopal Church, as a high school teacher and finally as a colleague of Jane Addams at Hull House in the slums of Chicago. In 1910, she became executive secretary of the Consumers League of New York, concentrating on the improvement of working conditions for women and children...
Among proper-Bostonian Lowells and Lodges, the Cabots are known for "customs, not manners," and there is no more bohemian Brahmin than Harvard's stocky, cigar-smoking treasurer, Paul Codman Cabot, 66. Fiercely energetic, shatteringly frank, he can curse like a barge captain, yet guide a big investment like the skipper of a liner. Last week, two months before his mandatory retirement, he achieved a lifetime goal by pushing the market value of Harvard's investments past $1 billion. No other university comes close to such an endowment...