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...every paperback emporium offers tiers of books claiming intimate acquaintance with the text of the future and the leaders of the past. Thanatologist Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross tells followers she speaks with the dead. A new edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus, "receded by computer" to give the requisite scientific gloss, has recently sold more than 100,000 copies in Europe. In every epoch of social confusion, concludes this entertaining history of folly, "the show goes on. The spirits are willing, and the flesh is weak.'' -By Stefan Kanfer
...look at his actions thus far tells the story. In the past few months, the EPA has focused on image and cosmetics, which logically follows the large amount of political gloss placed on Mr. Ruckelshaus' appointment. Since taking office, he has spent a great deal of his time visiting regional offices--doubtless a good way to rebuild morale, but not worth the effort if the visits lack substance. And apparently they have, to some extent. So far this year these same regional offices, the backbone of the EPA, have sent 35 percent fewer cases than last year to Washington...
Artistically, the company already seems secure. The first four productions, although they tend toward the conventional and ingratiating, all have a high gloss, especially in design. Phillips and Phillip Silver have created a standing set: a streamlined, frame-and-window contraption that can look like a temple, a skyscraper or the wall of a conservatory. It neatly frames an all but impeccable The Doctor's Dilemma, Shaw's affectionate satire of medical theories, artistic pretensions and the absurd complexities brought on by love. The plot, a wittily constructed but logically dubious foofaraw, about a physician who must decide...
...some danger of disappearing into the denim egalitarianism of the time. It never could, of course. It just changed form; and the Revolution, while it lasted, enforced its own snobberies, its own political and even psychic pretensions. Today, snobbery is back in more familiar channels. A generation of high-gloss magazines (Connoisseur, Architectural Digest, House and Garden, for example) flourishes by telling Americans what the right look is. The American ideal of the Common Man seems to have got lost somewhere; the Jacksonian theme was overwhelmed by the postwar good life and all the dreamy addictions of the best brand...
...born." It does not take quite that much marination to make a great snob, since the secret of snobbery is mere plausibility, the appearance of knowledge and breeding. Still, in a busy world it is difficult to find the time and resources to give the laminations and high gloss, the old patina, that used to be the mark of great snobbery...