Word: snobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draped cape-style over his shoulders with artful carelessness. Everyone was waiting impatiently for the morning papers. Bernstein brought the news to his table: "They're all raves except Kerr" (the Herald Tribune's authoritatively trenchant Walter Kerr). Added Bernstein: "You know, Kerr's an inverted snob. He's such an intellectual that he can't stand a musical unless it's got a chorus line...
That Cozzens fellow is certainly remarkable. Snob, introvert, hermit-all this, and a proud Anglo-Saxon blueblood too. Do you think poor greaseballs like me will ever be able to appreciate the genius of this...
...among TV performers as well as newcomers to films. Says he: "The TV actors can afford to eat here, but they haven't progressed beyond the drugstore counter. They think differently, behave differently, live differently. The dirty shirt is a form of snobbery, you know. We're snobs, but not that kind. We are snobs for good manners. I'm a snob without prejudice...
...Snob. Holder put on three rowdy revues, and they got him an invitation to 1952's Caribbean Festival in Puerto Rico. From the festival (where he was a great hit in "a purple suit amid a riot of bougainvillaea and frangipani") he jumped to the U.S., spent a hungry year in Manhattan before he "qualified before the gods and goddesses of the dance" at Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., and landed a role in the Broadway musical House of Flowers. He promptly wooed a featured dancer in the show, Carmen de Lavallade ("I thought...
This is not to advocate the 25% limit for snob-appeal, just think of what it will do for American literature when it creates a vast new mythology of rustics, beggars, and the like. There should be a sensible increase in suffering along with poverty, so that artists will be blossoming in the newly created misery...