Word: nouveaux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michiko Shoda as "that little upstart." Recently, as a guest at an exclusive dinner party, Michiko's millionaire industrialist father sat in embarrassed silence while kazoku guests addressed each other loudly over his head, complaining at the way things were going, and blaming all their troubles on the nouveaux riches and the "postwar millionaires." Ultranationalists threatened to "wipe out" the entire Shoda family. The police, aware of how often in Japan assassination has been a means of political or emotional protest, keep the Shoda house under constant guard...
...Advocate has a number of interesting critical tenets. To qualify as an Advocate editor, a young man chooses as parents second-generation nouveaux, preferably the youngest and thus farthest removed progeny of a robber baron. After acquiring a Swiss governess and later a secondary school education in Paris, our critic purchases four pin-stripe suits of recognized quality (perhaps also a pipe), adopts his middle name for use colloquially (reserving his first initial as a prefix to his universally respected signature), and enters Harvard. Once here, he soon verses himself in Henry James, and obtains a lock of hair from...
What with a suicide, a normal death, an abortion, an aristocratic nymphomaniac and a wig-fetishist of an elevator operator, The Pink Hotel might have rated a black mark in any Baedeker except for Author Dennis' quips and quiddities, e.g., anent the nouveaux riches: "Better nouveau than never." The book also enjoys spoofing the Hippocratic oath of the hotel business. "What is a Guest? A Guest is the most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging...
...satisfies the resentments of his followers (both those from the Eastern slums and those from the Western, nouveaux riches) because his sincerest hatred is always against the oldest, most rooted, and most deeply educated patrician families (the Cabot Lodges, Achesons, Conants, Adlai Stevensons). Confining myself to native American growths and not to alien importations like Communism, I would classify McCarthy as the most radically and instinctively leftist dynamite in American history since the I.W.W...