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...whirl from Novelist Elizabeth Bowen. She takes the character of Bergotte, Proust's fictitious writer of fiction, and after wondering briefly whether the original might have been Anatole France, finally decides Bergotte is really a "standin, scapegoat, whipping-boy for" Proust-particularly as a purple stylist and a snob...
...fact that DiCara is young or Italian or goes to Harvard should be labeled as "strengths" rather than whatever positions on issues he might take (listed later almost as an afterthought) suggests Epps as little more than a class snob commenting on the fun and games of lumpen politics...
...Semantic Dimension. Like all crisis-mongers, Steiner is a bit of a snob about his crisis. On the problems of language and their solution he rather melodramatically makes man's future cliff-hang: "The next dimension of psychology, the step that may at last take us beyond a primitive mind/body empiricism, could well be semantic." He even crowds his way into the biological revolution: "It may be that human speech is in some way a counterpart to that decoding and translation of the neurochemical idiom which defines and perpetuates our biological existence...
...code has produced a monster of a younger son-a clean-cut all-American fanatic. Until she sees him for what he is, until she finds herself allied only to despised rednecks, Hester has been a bit of a monster herself -a moral as well as a social snob...
...Snob Appeal. Helmsley's gamble on the Park Lane is all the more remarkable because it ignores the hotel industry's growing reliance on conventions and banquets as a primary source of revenue. Like its older Manhattan neighbors, the Plaza, St. Regis-Sheraton and Pierre, the elegant Park Lane is designed mainly to lure well-heeled individual travelers, whether they are in New York for business or pleasure. Helmsley spent nearly $50,000 for each room, many of which are lavishly decorated with original paintings. Overnight rentals vary from $32 for a single...