Word: nouveaux
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...thinks, regard the U.S. somewhat as the Greeks regarded the rise of muscular, uncultured Rome. The Greeks told themselves (as Europeans do today) that these new barbarians across the water might have more money-but they would never be really civilized. European intellectuals have always claimed that those American nouveaux riches are uncouth. They have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world-and not even a pretty one-with plumbing instead of arteries, ice water instead of blood, neuroses instead of a heart and a radio...
...executives . . . continue to go their old Lobster-Supper-Charlie way, delighting in the pitiful ostentations of the nouveaux-riches. . . . They can never leave well enough off alone...
...Road of the Exquisite." Good times and tourist dollars had smothered the revolutionary fire in younger Mexicans. Today's artists were more interested in painting to please the multitude of nouveaux riches than in refighting battles already won or lost. "Now," mourned Siqueiros, "60% of our painters have left our school in favor of that of Paris. Our school is social, heroic, and monumental. They are going, more or less, on the road of the exquisite, of the snob...
...France's Immortals, the black-robed Académie Française, voted to ostracize two famed colleagues: Abel Bonnard, writer who had served as Vichy Minister of Education; Abel Hermant, octogenarian novelist who wrote for Paris's pro-Nazi Les Nouveaux Temps...
...Trouble with Retain. Despite this torrential milking of France, Marshal Petain's collaboration was never 100% satisfactory to the Nazis. Even a year ago the Nazi-kept Les Nouveaux Temps was howling: "Collaboration must be expanded from the economic to the political plane to be really productive. It can be accomplished only by Laval...