Word: brahminism
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Authentic Brahmin. "Cabot Lodge," a fellow New Englander recently observed, "has always been sitting on top of the world. After all, he was born there." By birth, Lodge is an authentic Massachusetts Bay Brahmin, and he can count six U.S. Senators among his ancestors.* Through a paternal great-grandmother he is allied to the Cabots, a Bostonian clan perhaps only partially maligned by the old quatrain in which "the Lowells talk only to the Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God." The Lodge fortunes piled up in the clipper-ship days are now spread fairly thin among descendants...
Like his younger brother John (sometime Governor of Connecticut, now Ambassador to Spain), "Cab" Lodge followed the beaten Brahmin path to Harvard. By taking extra courses, he finished up in three years. "I disliked the academic atmosphere," he says. "I wanted to get going." He graduated cum laude despite the speedup, explains that he did it the easy way, by majoring in Romance languages, taking advantage of the fluent French he learned at schools he attended in Paris...
...with the Thakur of Bissau, a nobleman of old Jaipur state and a member of the Rajput warrior caste, and we shot quail and partridge on weekends. Then we moved to the south, where they are more non-violent. Instead of shooting on weekends, we went birdwatching with our Brahmin editor friends...
...headed by Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, which reviewed all testimony and supported the jury's decision that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty of murder, the New York Times editorialized that "the condemned have had every opportunity which the law affords." Nonetheless, agitators charged that Millionaire Fuller and Brahmin Lowell were predisposed against the immigrant, anarchist Italians. On completion of his second term, Fuller-who never cashed a paycheck as Congressman or governor-returned to his business, became noted in Boston as a patron of arts and music...
Wheatley's boss, and topmost Brahmin around WGBH, is Ralph ("Mr. Boston") Lowell, the institute's sole trustee and perhaps the only banker who owns a show-business achievement award from Variety. Now that his operation is functioning smoothly, Benefactor Lowell finds it possible to report that through WBGH the Lowells now speak not only to the Cabots but to some thousands of Bostonians a day as well...