Word: snobbish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prokofiev's aristocrats were snobbish, idle, worthless people; his masses were the salt of the earth. Officially, the Communists did not attend, but the Communist press turned handsprings in praise of Prokofiev's work and its ideological message. Some critics, obviously unfamiliar with Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel, had trouble following the plot, and small wonder: about the only original characters who came through were Pierre, the high-born hero who learned to love the Russian people through suffering with them, and Natasha, the simple girl who returned to her first love when...
...Table has long aroused college men both pro and con. The sight of a group of tuxedoed men eating better food on a raised platform has stirred the democratic ire, of many a student. The Table's opponents claim that it is a snobbish piece of showiness, while its defenders say that it is a good way of bringing together the House staff and undergraduates...
Reaction to the decision was immediate. The press was quick to point out that recently the HGC had not been winning the championships--in fact, it had finished seventh the previous year. One Boston paper attributed the withdrawal to "snobbish superiority." Calling the move "poor sportsmanship" the Harvard Club of Kansas City urged Davison to reenter next year...
...Spectator also took offense at the CRIMSON article. The newsapper stated editorially, "The report abounds with snobbish depreciations of Columbia University. . . We wish to petition Harvard not to expel us from the Ivy League...
...president, said that "each girl decorates her room as she would decorate her room at home," most turn to the collegiate effect, with emphasis on banners and crimson cushions and a notable lack of frilly stuff. Even the few possible varieties of decoration, however, call up the normal feminine snobbish between tastes. "I just loathe chintz bedspreads...