Word: snobbish
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Brooks has kinder words for most of these writers than he has for Edith Wharton and her skilled and snobbish novels about rich New Yorkers. "She was always ready with cold stares," complains Brooks, "for those who encroached in any way on the small caste-prerogatives that she valued so much . . ." He turns with a warmer eye to the lumbering Hoosier, Theodore Dreiser, with his industrial America, his farm girls looking for jobs and fun in the big city, his drummers spreading the gospel of the fast buck. For all his muddled clumsiness, Dreiser was the spiritual father of almost...
...type of magazine .[which] will either elate the top 100,000 thinking men in this country, or be a miserable flop." This frank and frankly snobbish advertising heralded the advent of a new $2-a-copy quarterly, Gentry, which appeared last week, sponsored by Manhattan's Reporter Publications. The new magazine did not quite live up to its billing ("There is nothing in the world like it"). It looked rather like a masculine version of Fleur Cowles's late, ill-starred Flair. It looked even more like the fancy and expensive ($3 a copy) trade quarterly, American Fabrics...
...length and in Technicolor, the film shows that sororities have their points, e.g., a cozy sense of belonging, but none to offset the hurt they inflict on the girls they turn down, or to justify the snobbish values they set up. It pictures the societies through the bright eyes of Freshman Jeanne Grain, who comes to a Midwestern university all atwitter to join Upsilon Upsilon Upsilon...
...myself is this: How did a story that was originally provoked by anger at the high price of supposedly 'cheap' cuts of meat turn into an anti-pig story? I find that the Little Piggie story changed and warped the facts in such a way that the snobbish and un-working-class attitudes our readers detected crept in and received the main emphasis rather than the high price of pork -once a staple in the diet of millions...
...barely disguised story of Fitzgerald's Princeton experience, it made its author famous overnight. The magazines, chiefly the Satevepost, bought his stories at top rates as fast as he could turn them out. Yet This Side of Paradise was far from a great novel. It was crude, snobbish, awkward and frequently juvenile. Critic Harry Hansen exclaimed: "My, how that boy Fitzgerald can write!" But an abler critic, Fitzgerald's old Princeton friend, Edmund Wilson, wrote: "It is one of the most illiterate books of any merit ever published .. . full of bogus ideas and faked literary references . . ." Read today...