Word: brahminism
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...went to hack in a hell called Hollywood: "His heart jumped in his chest. For the first time it occurred to him that now he was going to be rich." He got rid of his first wife ("a peasant") and married his second (who gave his life a "Brahmin note...
...English and Literature." From this post, Jones moved around, teaching at the Universities of Texas, Montana, and North Carolina, and finally winding up back in Michigan in 1930. In 1936, his scholarly reputation established, but still a somewhat bewildered Midwesterner, he came to Harvard. "I kept looking for the Brahmin Caste," he recalls. "Come to think of it, I still...
Carefree Expatriate. Although he looks and acts like a Yankee intellectual, Governor Herter has spent less than half his life in Massachusetts, and his background is more bohemian than Brahmin. His architect grandfather, the first Christian Herter, came to the U.S. from Stuttgart at a time when the country was accumulating culture as rapidly and indiscriminately as it was founding fortunes. He found an eager clientele, built great mansions from Fifth Avenue (for J. P. Morgan, William Vanderbilt) to Nob Hill (for Mark Hopkins), and gilded them with the treasures of Europe. But grandfather had no taste for business...
Holmes-Laski Letters, edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe. Nearly 1.500 pages of learning, gossip and friendly controversy between a skeptical old Brahmin and a Marxist intellectual (TIME, March...
Holmes-Laski Letters, edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe. Nearly 1,500 pages of learning, gossip and friendly controversy between a skeptical old Brahmin and a Marxist intellectual (TIME, March...