Sentences with phrase «brahmin family»

Raised in a cultured Tamil Brahmin family in Chennai, as a teenager in the 1940s Srimati was swept... Read More

She seems to be well on her way to the life she has dreamed of when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student and the scion of a Boston Brahmin family.

This Cold War liberal from a Boston Brahmin family, and an intimate friend of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, worked covertly for the CIA in Europe in the 1950s.

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Few men on earth had less in common: Khrushchev was a short, pudgy, uneducated Russian peasant who'd climbed to power by tenacity and brutality; Lodge was a tall, thin, Harvard - educated Boston Brahmin who'd been born into America's aristocracy, scion of one of the families immortalized in an old New England toast: Here's to good old Boston, Home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells speak only to the Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God.

Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families — one black, one white — swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.