Word: snob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conniff still floundering. The New York Times got the Trib's Walter Kerr, and the W.J.T. is still searching for a critic. The job was offered to Judith Crist, who turned it down in favor of films. "That's where the action is," she says. "The snob appeal of theater reviewing is lost on me." The Trib's Eugenia Sheppard will edit the woman's page; her staff will boast Hearst's wry society columnist, Suzy Knickerbocker...
...properly with Fielding, or Dickens, or Balzac," she said, "but he could be compared with Squire Western, or Mr. Micawber, or Lucien de Rubempre." The posthumous publication of parts of his own remarkable million-word Journal, moreover, only added to the popular caricature of him as a fop, a snob, and a frightened little poseur hiding behind bombast and a vulgar cocksureness...
...Jamaica with Prince Charles for the Commonwealth Games, she made the scene in a pair of good-looking hip-huggers and a Dutch-boy cap. What's more, says Anne, after boarding school she wants to go to Sussex University, one of Britain's new non-snob colleges...
...ultimate in snob appeal," said Daniel R. Bronson '67, a friend of Nightingale's and a proud toter of the button, "or it is a desperate attempt to seek one's own level...
Nightingale had 250 buttons made at a cost of ten cents apiece, but he has given so many away, that the best he can hope for is to break even on them. He claims that the buttons are neither for profit nor snob appeal. "It's just a joke...