Word: brahminism
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...forefathers of this Boston Brahmin two Massachusetts mill towns are named. His older brother Percival discovered the canals of Mars and the planet Pluto. His younger sister was the cigar-smoking poetess Amy. At Harvard young Lawrence was a brilliant student of mathematics and never lost a foot race. Still proud of his fitness some 50 years later, he one day challenged Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth) to climb a picket fence built around the Harvard athletic field. Bryce declined, but Lowell nimbly scrambled over...
...drama course that was then an adjunct to it, molded a nation-wide reputation for Harvard theatricals. But in the fall of that year, the Dramatic Society was set on its wanderings, and Professor Baker's activities, including the then-famed course, English 47, abolished. Baker, exiled by the Brahmin purists, found a more appreciative reception at New Haven, settled there, and brought the Yale drama school to the ranking spot in college theatrical circles it now holds. After the hegira the Corporation was content to allow Harvard to lag behind every leading college in the land, completely devoid...
Rossetti, who had once urged Pre-Raphaelites to "abjure bohemianism," was the most bohemian of the group. He collected "kangaroos, a wallaby, a chameleon, some salamanders, wombats, an armadillo, a marmot, a woodchuck, a deer, a jackass, a raccoon. . . ." He bought a Brahmin bull because its eyes reminded him of one of his lady friends. Even his Pre-Raphaelite brothers were gradually estranged by Rossetti's eccentricities. When the novelist George Meredith made an annoying remark, Rossetti simply threw a cup of tea in his face. But some hero-worshipers remained faithful. "Why is he not some great exiled...
...Author. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (The Maritime History of Massachusetts) has been described as a Boston Brahmin with a bite. Outwardly he is a tweedy, dignified, humorous patrician who at 54 is highly enthusiastic about sailing, skiing, horseback riding, wanes, U.S. history before 1760 and Christopher Columbus. His office in Harvard's Widener Library is scattered with books, maps, charts and pictures about the discoverer. He also has a photograph of Franklin Roosevelt which is autographed: "To my friend Sam Morison-Columbus...
...good story. The dog was killed too soon, and the children criminally deceived. This brings an intense crisis to 1) the parents, engaged in a cold battle for Emily's affections; 2) the half-caste veterinarian, who killed the dog against his better judgment; 3) a lordly young Brahmin friend of his; 4) Emily, whose ingenious resolve for vengeance lands her high & dry on the lonely edge of maturity; 5) at length, the whole community, in a plausible yet somehow ridiculous finale...