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Space, Time & Snobbery. From the Terrace has all the O'Hara virtues and all the defects of those virtues. His ear for dialogue has never been truer, but when page after page of unselective trivia has been set down, the reader finds himself aching for an earplug. O'Hara continues to describe the nuances of social habit with rare authority in a society in which social flux continuously alters the symbols of prestige. But the snobbism of the right prep school, the right club, the right street in the right exurb becomes so intrusive that Terrace often reads...
...Prime Minister . . . Can we be left in suspense?" Beaming, Sir Winston broke in to say, "I am sorry I did not bring my hearing aid," as he dispatched his son-in-law, M.P. Christopher Soames, to get the slender, white, lily-shaped trumpet Sir Winston has substituted for the earplug he first used.-"I don't want to miss anything," he confided in a loud aside. Fletcher tried again. Churchill, his trumpet to his ear, sat back smiling benignly, but said not a word...
...front to ask what is going on, and the latter is trying to see over the towering headdress of the fat man in front of him. Two of the seated figures meditatively finger their beads. The last on the right, losing interest, toys with his earplug...