Word: brahmins
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...former president of the alumni association (1957-60), it is not surprising though that Richardson, a liberal Republican Brahmin from Beacon Hill, should be popularly mentioned. Descriptions of his qualifications from some supporters boil down to the fact that he is a "good man" and one need only look to his enthusiastic participation as a member of the Boston Council of the Boy Scouts of America in 1964 to confirm...
...Goodman's criticisms of their class, he is more gentle about it. (He remembers Calkins as "someone terribly nice.") Kaplan graduated from Horace Mann School in New York, and says when he came to Harvard he was "definitely made to feel marginal." Nonetheless he does not see any Brahmin conspiracy to control the class...
...terribly meek they all are-more and more. They genuinely want to learn things, I think. At a certain age they realize they have a certain insularity. But of course they really can't get off their asses. You're not going to get Ralph Lowell Jr.-a classic Brahmin fundraiser type-to raise money from Southern alumni for black colleges...
...poor Brahmin," enters a fourth disciple. "Show me something with which I can make my life attractive...
...Royal Palace, then led a two-mile procession through the capital. At a courtyard in the Palace of the Lion, the prince joined the princess in seven ceremonial circuits around an eternal flame. They then sat down on a simulated bed for a full night of outdoor chanting with Brahmin priests and more Vedic rituals. In one, the couple's feet were washed by every one of the bride's nearly 200 family members. Clean, but cold; the temperature was about...