Word: snob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First he had the beastly taste to turn the family's ancestral Woburn Abbey into a ducal Disneyland, with a zoo and souvenir stands. Now Britain's merrily huckstering peer, John, Duke of Bedford, 48, is peddling The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, a 142-page guide to gate crashing the Establishment, in which he details his rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them...
...disk jockey in the county. And the stars' best chance to relax-the private parties local functionaries are always thrusting upon them-are off limits to Mike North's clients. "You can't win," he advises. "If you don't drink, you're a snob, and if you do, you're a gutter drunk...
...Harvard premedical students want to go to Harvard, Columbia, or Cornell. Johns Hopkins, Yale, Penn, Western Reserve, and Rochester are strong second choices. With the burgeoning number of applicants, it is simply not possible for most premedical students to attend a medical school among their first choices. Today's snob might not get to be tomorrow's doctor...
...current publishers realize, Call It Sleep's history is its finest selling point. To those who equate failure with artistic integrity, three decades of neglect suggests more than ordinary merit. And for culture-snob and intellectual alike, the book's underground reputation has immense appeal. A friend recommended the novel to me, but I probably wouldn't have read it if he hadn't added that it first appeared in 1934 and sold only 4,000 copies, that Henry Roth has written almost nothing since then, that he now raises chickens on a farm in Maine. And I've found...
That is only the beginning of the snob-appeal gifts. Tiffany's fastest individual seller is a sterling-silver money clip that costs $3.50. Hammacher Schlemmer offers "Worldtemp" cuff links that register centigrade temperatures on one link and Fahrenheit on the other. Honeywell's $39.95 fishing thermometer comes with 60 ft. of line and a gauge showing which fish bite best at various water temperatures. For $99.50, Abercrombie & Fitch will gift-wrap an instrument that simultaneously tells temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, time of day and day of the week. And for the man who has every thing...