Word: brahminism
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...image of Kerry as a Boston Brahmin misses one point; he managed to have a privileged upbringing without the wealth that usually goes with it. From the outside he was an American prince, but within his rarefied world, he was actually one of the poor kids. "John was never a part of the Eastern elite, if you will, whatever that means," says David Thorne, a close friend going back to Yale days. "He was not in demeanor or otherwise the product of a rich family." Thorne, the product of a very rich family, knows the difference...
Lowell in turn promised his successor, James B. Conant ’14, that he would stay out the way, only to retire to Boston where he remained influential among the Brahmin elite that served on Conant’s Corporation...
...hale looking scholar with an authoritative manner," wrote Robert van Gelder in the New York Times. "There goes the most objectionable type of Harvard man," fumed an irate New England matriarch. Quoth the editors of Time: "a Boston Brahmin with a bite...
...enjoys a chance to poke a little fun at the mannerisms of Boston's Brahmin class as much as those who grew up in its working-class shadows. Which is probably why the daughter of St. Peter's parish in Dorchester, Mass., delivers such a wicked funny impression of the deep patrician voice that was on the other end of the line when she picked up the phone at home one Friday night last November. "Mary Beth," she says, tucking her chin, locking her jaw and dropping a register or two, "this is John Kerry." Mary Beth Cahill knew...
Speaking of Dean, you asked if the country is "willing to elect a Brahmin who grew up in East Hampton, N.Y., and on Park Avenue, who brings virtually no national-security experience to a post-9/11 nation." I ask if the country is willing to re-elect Bush, a Brahmin who grew up the son of a rich politician with a summer estate in Maine; who had no national-security experience when he entered office; who has effectively turned much of the world against the U.S. since 9/11. I'd take the Brahmin doctor, who I believe genuinely wants...