Word: snobbishness
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...contrast, Odette de Crecy (Ornella Mutti), has what might tactfully be called 'tacky taste'. She is, moreover, a demimondaine-little more than a prostitute on the social scale--to her snobbish patroness, the Duchess de Guermantes (Fanny Ardant...
...offend anyone except the ghost of Avery Brundage and a few no-show Iron Curtain sports commissars by announcing the obvious, that the defunct Olympic ideal of amateurism has always been humbug? The prohibition against pros was not high-minded in its origin, it was high-hat: a snobbish social exclusion of riding instructors, fencing masters and the like who sweated for their keep and were considered high-level servants. It was intended to ensure that those who participated in this festival of running and jumping were the sons and daughters of gentlefolk. Other Olympic ideals had more substance...
...funds, like the splendidly mixed group just encountered. Carl Lewis, who drives a BMW he earned by running and jumping, is not an amateur by any sane definition, but Ann Turner, carless and couldn't-care-less, really is one. Whimsical market forces have replaced most of the snobbish old social exclusion. Lewis gets the BMW, and Turner walks to practice because track and field is more popular than kayaking...
...time of the gentleman's C at Harvard among certain of the prep school graduates and the "clubbies," who treated "greasy grinds" who got A's with contempt and looked upon Radcliffe women as "bluestockings" to be avoided at all costs. Some of us, too, were rather hierarchical and snobbish in our judgment of our classmates. Concentrators in the sciences were thought to be rather "wet," and taking a laboratory course was something to be avoided, because it meant long hours of work in the late afternoon and a freezing walk back home or to one's dormitory...
With its cast of fairies, including a queen and banished fairy with a half-mortal son. Iolanthe becomes a humorous saltine of the English peerage system, as the fairies encounter a group of snobbish nobles, both liberal and conservative. Iolanthe may be dated, but the G&S production never gets bogged down by its situations, and it reveals the timeless hilarity of such stock characters as fairies and nobles who gradually unravel the stereotypes that bias their views of each other...