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...more important than money and family. All are friends living in a convention-clamped New England university town. Except for Harold, a humorless but kindly culture-vulture, they would much sooner make a sexual slip than be caught uttering a cliche. Bayard works full time at being a snob and composer. His sister Cally paints, keeps hopping into beds, and wonders if true love will always pass her by. Tosh is a poet who has just been ditched by a beautiful girl who is reasonably sure that it is possible to live by bread alone...
Comedienne Kendall glides like an angular jellyfish through the role of Lady Broadbent, an elegant snob who sets out to make Husband Rex's teen-age American daughter (by his first marriage) the toast of the London "season." The toast, Sandra Dee, takes a lot of buttering up. After dancing with bumble-footed toffs at her first ball, she murmurs in a beguiling Bronx accent, "They're all drips...
Orwell himself had a few notions which some critics today would find odd. For instance, he was convinced that British bellies were largely fed on the loot of Empire; it has not turned out that way. But Orwell's polemics against bearded, fruit-juice-drinking pacifists, cranks, snobs, snob-bolsheviks, cowards in the socialist movement is devastating stuff, and this lends sharp irony to the book today. With great acumen the present publishers have reprinted Victor Gollancz's original foreword, in which the socialist publisher apologizes for the heretical opinions of his socialist writer. Says Gollancz in shocked...
...poor shrimp and Hilda the voracious anemone), the pair spends a lot of time in the nursery or playing with sand castles on the seashore. But the plump, inadequate little boy and the domineering sister live on to play out their roles in real castles. Eustace is a birthright snob, smart, in his way, and nice to old ladies. One of them is a rich Miss Fothergill who-with solid cash though otherwise in the manner of Dickens' Miss Havisham in Great Expectations [ -becomes little Eustace's patroness...
Bath Cubes by Guerlain. But the critics sound as if they might be kinder to Bond's non-U. penchant for drop-kicking the men and devil-dealing the ladies if he were not such a dandy among the consumer goods, a slave to "crude snob-cravings." The monocle glitters over the private-eyeful afforded by Agent Bond. He smokes Macedonian cigarettes marked with three gold rings. He drinks Dom Perignon champagne, drives a Bentley. At Blades, a posh St. James's Street club that he frequents, "no newspaper comes to the reading room before it has been...