Word: snobbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...railway station. At Trinity, dons were gargling grace in two alternate systems of Latin pronunciation; the junior dean had to be eased out because, though his sermons were eloquent, he had become crippled by syphilis and had raped his daughter. The master was another kind of monster-a snob. Yet this cloister now housed some of the brightest spirits...
Novelist Gilbert is a journalist who won't admit it. The contrived, never-say-die plot of The Beautiful Life is simply a device to move his characters through the inner circle. Exclusive restaurants and discotheques, the Plaza, "molto snob" boutiques and hair salons, Parke-Bernet, Sutton Place, a round of Capotesque parties, and assorted Upper East Side bedrooms...
Nicolson never tried to disguise the fact that he was a member of the elite, and since he obviously felt that people outside that elite had something wrong with them, he frequently sounds like a crashing snob. He never truly cared for Mrs. Wallis Simpson, for example; he looked on her as an American social climber, though he faithfully recorded each of the many times he met her at parties. Like many Englishmen of his generation and class, he was troubled almost as deeply about the abdication as he was about Munich. "What is so tragic," he confided...
...Loeb; tails, he's a slightly discriminating perfectionist. "People don't ask him to rehearsals because they are afraid he would sneer," says one HDC member. "If he can't do a show exactly right, he can't bear to do it," says another. "He's kind of a snob. He won't do a show that would be compromised from the beginning...
...Oedipal wrecks and decent drudges who turn up naked at the Last Judgment. But in this book much of the elan is gone; it sometimes appears as if Condon is padding to keep from plotting. Besides, he seems to hold his nose in the presence of his desperate snob, and an author's distaste for his own hero can taint a reader's pleasure...