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I miss such documentation in Wilkinson's book: the only indication we have, from How to use the book, is in a vague mention of Heywood, Ray, OED, ODEP , Apperson, and Skeat's 1895 edition of Chaucer--vague because the average user of this book may not be familiar with these cryptic references, and no bibliographic details are provided.
Bland wealth of the suburbs,it's futile to keep despising it, I know,unfair to friends who have to live there--or else in slums--but sometimes its cultivated innocence feels like an assault.I don't want to join the country club because there are no parks.I don't want to leave my car in an underground garage,rise to the office, sink at the end of day,drive home unable to stop or roll down the windowstill I see the familiar guard in his gatepost waiting at the start of our street.
Until a decade or so ago it was spelt brahmin , which is now given as an alternate spelling, and has survived in such expressions of common occurrence as Boston Brahmins . While every literate American may not be familiar with the expression, those who are will know that a Boston Brahmin refers to the aristocrats or first families of Boston such as the Cabots and the Lodges.
A white-haired man with olive skin and tattered clothes limped into Met Food and panhandled the clerk, one I recognized, her face mild and familiar as bread.
From The Boys From Brazil (Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele, alive and well and cloning Hitlers at a secret lab in the Brazilian Amazon) to Jurassic Park (Richard Attenborough alive and well and cloning velociraptors), Wells' basic formula has become familiar: an island; a Frankensteinian experiment; a Faustian scientist; something gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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