Word: brahmins
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...performing too many operations for profit. Orthodox physicians are discomfited by his supercharged, fast-takeoff personality and his habit of shooting from the hip. Trained to shun publicity, they are scandalized by the fact that Knowles "talks in headlines" and gets a consistently good press. Last week the naturalized Brahmin moved to New York City to take over a new and more pow erful podium as president of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...Boston Irish needed their culture a hundred years ago. It was the only frame of reference they had during their war with Boston's Brahmins. Now the war is over, although neither side emerged the victor, and the truce has brought with it a free intermingling of the two, and an erosion of the Boston Irish community. The assimilation has affected other ethnic groups as well, to the point where Boston's suburbs are a melange of nationalities (with blacks and Spanish-speaking people, of course, neatly excluded), all whipped into one bland, suburban culture. The Brahmin oppression is dead...
...SOLOMON has written a fascinating study of the racial attitudes of Brahmin leaders during the ninettenth century. She does a vivid depiction of the hardening of heart of such men as James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton occasioned by the growth of immigration. Her book reveals a shocking degree of bigotry in some of the most impressive intellectual figures of the day--as Henry Adams's pronouncement to a friend: "Poor Boston has fairly run up against it in the form of its particular Irish maggot, rather lower than the Jew, but more or less the same in appetite...
...single argument for further restriction of immigration satisfied his Brahmin conscience, and he asked. "Is this generation to be frightened out of this noble policy by an industrial, racial, political, or religious bogies...
...went straight to Wall Street from Wellesley (where she was Phi Beta Kappa with a major in economics) and talked herself into becoming the first woman admitted to the executive-training program at the Brahmin brokerage of Dominick & Dominick. "Frankly," she recalls, "it was an advantage to be a woman. Customers remembered me." She wisely carved out a specialty-savings and loan associations-and after ten years was a recognized expert, handling $15 million underwritings. But it was time to leave. "The doors were closed for a partnership. To be a woman entrepreneur you have to own the store." With...