Word: snobbish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Because of TV's enormous potential for both good and evil, Kingsley thinks that it would be almost criminal for any major artist to ignore it: "The influence of TV can shape an election; thus it can shape the fate of the nation. We mustn't be snobbish about television...
...responsibility to grow. The University's primary obligation, they argue, is to maintain its own educational quality unblemished. While history may easily prove this group right about the college's chances of successful expansion, their advocacy of retreat from the problem is unfortunate. Their arguments seem as snobbish as Jonathan Swift's "modest proposal" that poor children be sold and fed to rich children in order lower class incomes. Unfortunately, unlike Swift, they take their argument seriously. They fail to realize, however, that the University can hardly remain a leader in education while ignoring the main educational issue...
...proves to be a mean little stinker who kills puppy dogs, and his daughter Thelma a snobbish, touch-me-not icicle who is ashamed of her father and mother and their back-country ways...
Most popular of all were the plays about the Mulligan Guards, broad satirical spoofs on the pseudo-military, semipolitical marching companies of the period, formed by immigrant groups who were blackballed from the snobbish regular militia. The hero, Dan Mulligan played by Harrigan, had two mottoes: "Erin Go Bragh" and "E Pluribus Unum " He was so Irish that he thought Lafayette's real name was Lafferty, and so American that he razed a Sixth Ward barber pole because it was painted in the colors of a German flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. For the rest, Harrigan...
While at Harvard, he attacked the College's clubs as "snobbish." The seeds for his political views also bloomed. He bucked considerable University pressure to gain permission for well-known radicals to address undergraduates...