Word: brahminism
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...history of the republic, 11,707 men and women have served in Congress. Only two have held office longer than Robert Byrd, first elected to the House in 1952 and the Senate in '58. He has been around long enough to have served with a Connecticut Brahmin named Prescott Bush, the President's grandfather. With his white hair, benign tremor and penchant for quoting the Romans, Byrd seems more like a Senator from the 19th century than one from the 21st. He has never seen MTV. He refers to the camera in the Senate chamber as "the eee-leck-tronic...
...Mass.) on this quiet cobblestone cul-de-sac. The multimillion dollar brownstones of Louisburg Square surround a small private park maintained by America’s oldest homeowners association and are counted among the most exclusive addresses in Beacon Hill. Think Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Boston Brahmin style...
...popular notion of V.S. Naipaul is of a remote and forbidding figure, part Yoda, part Brahmin, author of sour essays and dense novels, whose favorite riposte is "I told you so." But this detachment is recent, an effect of various elevations: the knighthood in 1990, the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. The truth is that he has spent much of his life enmeshed in current events, making a living as a freelancer and giving permanent form to subjects such as teacup tempests in Anguilla and Grenada. It's hard these days to imagine Naipaul following the Norman-Mailer...
...story is nice, contrasting elitist Brahmin Harvard with the egalitarian upstart Stanford—which in a little more than a century has risen to be one of the most esteemed universities in the country, and is now commonly considered an Ivy of the West...
DIED. ASHOK KUMAR, 90, Indian actor who appeared in some 250 films over 60 years; in Bombay. A law school graduate, Kumar rose to stardom in the megahit Achhut Kanya (1936) playing a young Brahmin who falls in love with a low-caste woman...