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...appalling," grumbled H. G. Wells, "that this blinkered, pleasant, gossipy, gullible snob," Sir Samuel Hoare should be named British Ambassador to Spain. Wells was not the only one to wince. The nauseous memory of the Hoare-Laval Deal to appease Mussolini (1935) was still fresh. That of the Hitler-sweetening at Munich was even fresher. In 1940 Britain needed someone to talk straight, not sweet, to Spain's Franco. Sir Samuel hardly seemed the man. He had passed "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin," said a wag, "without discernible effect upon his condition...
Stressing the fact that until recently the study of the humanities was virtually restricted to a small leisure class, Conant urged that this field should now "be stripped as far as possible of the snob appeal so characteristic of so much of it in the past...
...Groton Averell is remembered as a modest, fairly intelligent boy. Both there and at Yale he was, like most young men of the same background, satisfied with a "gentleman's C." Only the "broad environment" of Yale, he thinks, saved him from becoming a snob. "I shudder to think what I might have become," he says, "hand I followed most of the other 'Gretties' to Harvard." From biography of W. Averell Harriman, Life Magazine, December...
...Sartre (who is not a Jew himself), anti-Semitism is sometimes the mediocre snob's means to a social end. ("Proust showed, for example, how anti-Dreyfusism brought the duke closer to his coachman . . ."). It also makes the French (or U.S.) Jew feel that no matter how hard he tries to be a real Frenchman (or American) he can never really be one-which makes the Gentile feel more like part of the nation's backbone himself...
...snob appeal, T. & C. once carried a double-truck "social calendar" and a nightclub column; but by the time Bull tossed them out the magazine had somewhat outgrown its adoration of Society. During the war, deprived of travel news and automotive ads, it took refuge in fashions ; now it is broadening its base to run more of its famous literary letters from abroad, more sports, more art. (This year it has doubled its 25,000 circulation.) Its theater critic: Harry Bull, only editor member of Manhattan's Drama Critics Circle...