Word: snob
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gracious impulses. Commentators from Coleridge to Shaw have praised Helena and the Countess as among the "loveliest" and "most charming" of Shakespeare's heroines, while dismissing Bertram and Parolles as unworthy of the ladies' or our interest. By Act V, Helena's passion for her unrequiting snob has become an act of beatific willfulness and the stuff of gaslight melodrama...
That magic mountain of money is not conjured up by rubbing Aladdin's lamp. It comes from a gambling alliance that bases its calculations on a measure of snob appeal and tested blue-chip talents. After all, no other musical can boast a T.S. Eliot as its lyricist, so to speak. Even if Eliot was playfully doodling for his godchildren and friends in his 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, he remains a god in the pantheon of 20th century poets. Cats Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Cos-tumer John Napier, of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
...Harvard, My Yale raises the burning big question that keeps bothering this aspiring alumnus: why should Harvard and Yale be singled out as worthy of printing up--and more to the point; purchasing--a collection of memoirs by their graduates? The book's editor, Diana Dubois, concedes the role snob appeal plays in forming her book's allure: the two universities, she writes in her introduction, "combine) like their Oxbridge cousins in England, to situate a competitive 'heaven' in America (at least for entering freshmen and sentimental alums...
...snob appeal is pretty thin stuff to bind a book with, and, in the end, it is important to remember the words with which Benjamin C. Bradlee '43 closes his essay...
...noticeable absence of bitterness separates this movie from Woody Allen's other comedies. Nobody, least of all Allen, leaves the film without love. Ferrar's obnoxious snob achieves redemption through lust, while a flirtatious couple decide the time is right to settle down. Allen talks about the dreams of his youth and decides that to realize these dreams does not guarantee fulfillment; he and his wife reunite...