Lesser Barrington

Years ago, when Mario Cuomo was Governor of New York, he had a weekly radio interview with broadcaster and political scientist Alan Chartok. Chartok lives in Great Barrington, MA, and Cuomo was busting on him for choosing to live (1) outside of New York (Chartok is a tenured professor in the NY state university system) and (2) in a town with a name like "Great B - - -". He asked him if the snobbishness of the name was the main attraction, and then suggested that a more democratic name might be "Lesser Barrington".