Word: snob
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...also, we should remember that good, honest hackwork is hard to come by, though I don't expect those brought up on Antonioni to understand this. As written and performed, there is more humanity and intelligence in Caine's and Sharif's characters than those who fall into the snob-trap are apt to admit. I take Clavell's work on these two characters as a good sign for commercial moviemaking. And to hell with the characters in the Gary audience who laughed when Caine's Captain died. May they greet death as gracefully. The sooner, the better...
...enough to book passage on the ill-fated paymaster's detail, and, no sooner are the credits over, than the Indians have wiped out the unit, overlooking only Candice and a thoroughly confused young private (Peter Strauss), whom Candice quickly derides as "Soldier Blue," her way of saying "preppie snob...
...ultimate snobbery is the snobbery of pain, the ultimate snob may be the vanquished German soldier-Siegfried, in the agony of defeat, singing a prouder tenor than his enemies can manage in victory...
...must grant, of course, that the words radical and liberal have been joined before in history. In the first half of the 19th century, the word liberal entered the British political vocabulary, having originated-amazingly -in Spain. (One does not wish to appear a snob, effete or otherwise, in these matters, but Spain hardly seems a proper background for a word destined to play so large a role in the public life of the democracies.) This immigrant word, liberal, found the term radical already flourishing in British politics. For a couple of decades, liberal and radical were used interchangeably...
...does not have to be an effete snob, a nattering nabob, or even a Democrat to be thoroughly offended by the contrived, consciously catchy mixed metaphors daily being flung at us by Spiro Agnew [Sept. 21]. One gets the impression that this buffoon is just discovering his power to appeal to people's prejudices for his own purposes. Probably Agnew has already planned his first post-V.P. book: Selected Smashing Speeches by the Sensation of the '70s. One suspects that he is also running for the title: Most Vocal and Vituperative Veep of the Century...