Word: snob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration's grape-shots at reporters, there are those favored journalists. One is Columnist Joseph Alsop, the closest thing in the Washington press corps to an "effete snob." The stories about Alsop abound: how he reads Sun Tzu's The Art of War in the original Chinese, how he once shattered the calm of the Paris Ritz by howling at the maitre d': "You have destroyed my broccoli!" Alsop, a resolute hard-liner on the war, is the only reporter who has twice been invited to dine at Nixon's White House...
...polish the eloquence and clarity for which he is now known." Alas, it is precisely his prose style that frightens off so many, including some who are sympathetic to his basic message. Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., while concurring in Agnew's description of an "effete corps of impudent snobs," felt impelled to deliver an explication de texte: "The rhetorical arrangement is extremely unsatisfactory," wrote Buckley. "The word 'snob' should rarely be preceded by an adjective. An 'effete corps' has its stresses wrong, which is itself distracting...
...care to shop around do not have to stop with Cardin. Ted Lapidus' "Mini-Ted" fashions can make almost any boy look soigné, and Carven's "Ma Fille" collection puts mothers and daughters into matching, high-style camaraderie. Jacques Esterel's "négligé snob" would get father and son in the act, too, with everyone wearing identical family jerseys. And then there is Marc Bohan's "Baby Dior" line. It's not every two-year-old who can wear (or whose parents can afford) a white lace dress costing...
Fallen Among Fabians. As Shaw tells it, his socialist faith began as a personal thing - a bitterness against a class system that he felt at the patched seat of his pants. He writes of his Dublin boyhood as that of "a penniless snob." But if his poverty denied him the class privilege of a university education, it gave him great freedom of mind. He could be depended upon to rush in where pedants feared to tread. At the drop of a bourgeois top hat, he would discourse on Moses or municipal drains, on Marx or Michelangelo. Browbeating the Church...
Vidal thinks of himself as a liberal-or, as he prefers to put it, a "maverick lemming." In fact, he is more nearly a conservative, with a taste for tradition in literature and privilege in life. He conveys the oddly patrician appeal of an elegant and unabashed snob and he has the patrician's special toughness...