Word: brahminism
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...Detroit News: "The big Brahmin with all the morals has now become Big Brother with all the tanks and planes. He has taken a leaf out of Mein Kampf...
Levin's doctoral thesis analysed the histories of the 19th century masters, George Bancroft, William Prescott, John Motley, and Francis Parkman, all of whom were contemporary to one another, and all of whom where Harvard graduates, members of Boston's Brahmin caste, and writers of superb narrative gifts. Out of this thesis came Levin's first book, History as Romantic...
...tough-minded law professor at his alma mater ('36) and a veteran of Cambridge, Mass., politics as a member of the town school committee, the little-known Bostonian went to work in the planned obscurity of Dullesville in the '50s, left the limelight to his Brahmin Boswell brother, Cleveland (Who Killed Society?) Amory...
...after a few raucous beers at the local pub to do a bit of secret studying. On a scholarship he has gone to a minor but passably posh school, and his family, which has invested all its hopes in the possibility of his sliding into the mysterious, U-type Brahmin group of English society, cowers amid the potted plants and wireless set in lower-middle-class Pimlico...
...mustard: "Where is the evidence of their victories and successes in the world we look upon today? Where are the fruits of that maturity and that experience?" In Kennedy's home town of Boston, Johnson seemed to stir far less crowd-pulling curiosity than Cabot Lodge, the Boston Brahmin, on the beaches of Coney...