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...snob, says William Makepeace Thackeray in one of the many essays in definition in his witty Book of Snobs, is one who "sleeps in white kid gloves, and commits dangerous excesses upon green...
...Snobbery," writes Lynes, "has emerged in a whole new set of guises" in recent years. Among them: the Tolerance Snob ("has a special predilection for getting his name printed on letterheads"), the Pot Luck Snob (Casserole Division), the Great-Out-of-Doors Snob, the Freudian Snob ("I have more inhibitions than anyone"), the Efficiency Snob ("answers the phone by barking just his last name"), the Physical Prowess Snob, the Eternal Verities Snob (Back to the Land Division), the Conservative Dress Snob ("The buttons on the sleeves of his jacket actually unbutton...
...hope that other snob artists may follow suit, thus removing from public view these annoying enlargements of a slight case of bellyache which the artist too often mistakes for an important esthetic experience...
Schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris of The Browning Version is not just grey from pedagogical dust, but is black and withered with failure. Disliked by his pupils, disdained by the headmaster, he is endlessly tortured by his snob and shrew and slut of a wife, who makes him the confidant as well as the victim of her infidelities. When a pupil suddenly floods him with happiness by bringing him a present, his wife promptly points out that the gift is doubtless really a bribe. At the end, thanks to the prodding of his wife's rebellious lover, Crocker-Harris shows...
Coward's Conversion. In a chapter headed "Shame and Wounded Snobbery," jesting G.B.S. turns dead-solemn and hands out a brand-new episode from his life-a "snob-tragedy" which profoundly influenced him although it caused him such anguish that he was never able to confess it even to his wife...