Word: snobbishness
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...last week that the selectors had tried to get one Hollywood picture, The Fortune Cookie (with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau), only to be turned down by the distributor, United Artists. That prompted Cookie's producerdirector, Billy Wilder, to suggest that United Artists was "scared of the snobbish, intellectual types of audiences and critics" in New York. "After all," he quipped, "my picture was not made in Czechoslovakia...
...that their shoes were "held together with wooden pegs their father made." Chastising the American Bar Association and other professional groups that opposed Morrissey's nomination to the federal bench-they said he was the least qualified candidate in memory-Kennedy charged that their objections were rooted in snobbish distaste for the fact that struggling young Frank had been forced to attend "a local law school at night rather than a national law school by day." Earlier, and incorrectly, Teddy claimed that the A.B.A. had opposed Justice Brandeis' nomination to the Supreme Court...
...into the education school, set up joint professorships on the theory that knowledge in specific fields is vital to the teaching of teachers. Says Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy, who was dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences: "Keppel won the respect of his faculty and my snobbish faculty, who tended to scoff at deans of education. He is a man who has grown on every job he's had-and left each a bigger job than it was." In 1962, John Kennedy invited Keppel to take on the Commissioner's job. In their first informal...
...with Zazie Dans le Metro and two nutty Yalies continued with Hallelujah the Hills. Both works snatched sequences from well-known films and spoofed them in crescendos of utter nonsense. Those versed in the history of the cinema had a gay time recognizing various snippets and whispering snobbish comments to their dates...
...roll show started blasting out the top pop tunes while the TV screen filled up with frenzied Hullabalooers twisting and shouting. ' There she is," shouted a D.U., spotting a favorite blonde dancer. "Go, beast, go! Most of the comments were in the same vein: sexual fascinations mingled with snobbish derision. For students never watch in silence; half the fun is Jetting go: "Get her name-she's terrible," " God, my eyes are crossing...