Word: snobbishness
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...characters are deceptively goofy. There’s the fly-infested beggar, the hunchbacked waiter, the snobbish French man, and the disproportionately small, white-haired nun nodding off at the next table. The scene is also deceptively simple: one bench in a French cafe and the outside world as reflected by the mirror behind it. But the snob has no money, the beggar is just as much a giver as he is a taker, and the old lady is not as saintly as she at first may seem...
...celebrity parents helps you cope with fame today? When I was starting out, my mother made me very aware that you could have ups and downs. One day you're acclaimed and the next day you're booed. She taught me to never take anything for granted. Never be snobbish about success. And never push people aside...
There was an article in the New York Times yesterday called “The Dating Game for the Ivied and Pedigreed.” We think a better title would have been, “Ivy League Students and Wannabes are Romantically Desperate, Snobbish Airheads...
...believe it or not, FlyBy doesn't mean that in a snobbish way. The fact is, California's state schools may be in a heap of trouble. The state legislature approved a whopping 20 percent cut in funding for the 10 schools in the University of California system—shaving $637.1 million from a $3.23 billion budget, which now stands at $2.6 billion. The legislature has also proposed a 32 percent increase in student tuition by fall 2010. In response, students, faculty, and staff protested the cuts yesterday. Imagine choosing Berkeley or UCLA over Harvard or Yale because...
...This newspaper agrees: Conservatives bash alternative lifestyles to win votes. “For close to a decade, the Republican Party has gotten considerable mileage out of a narrative of cultural conflict that pits a snobbish, educated, costal [sic] elite against the hard-working, god-fearing denizens of the country’s heartland,” The Crimson wailed in an editorial, “The Wrong War,” on September...