Word: clubbish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come off as such cardboard villains. "Uncle Remus," conceivable even now, is done here too baldly to be believed. It is also a bit much that the heads of British intelligence meet over lunch and after shooting parties, to discuss plans for liquidation and trout fishing with the same clubbish joviality. It becomes all too easy to understand why Castle refuses to believe in either side, and just retains faith in his private sense of honor. As in the eventually tiresome discussions between Castle and Sarah, the outside world is all black and white, and neither color is believable. Castle...
...American member questioned whether Powell readers should be a club at all, observing that it was snobbish and tended to make us take the master too seriously. He complained of comparisons to Proust. The Chairman ruled him out of order, saying that Powell was a clubbish sort of writer, and that anyway we were all too addicted to consider whether this was a good thing. [Applause.] A dissident younger group demanded a debate on the proposition that The Music of Time was altogether too cultivated and leisurely, neither as trenchantly funny as Evelyn Waugh nor as morally serious as Graham...