Word: snobbism
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...reverse snobbism dwindles with increased human understanding, and , for me, the lesson of these four years, is that a personal stability does not require total rejection of this place. For there is some good in practically everything on the peaceful side of experience. I feel friendly toward Harvard...
...financed by $200 leather jackets? Why not? After all, if you believe in the revolution, it shouldn't matter where the money comes from. On the other hand, the moral fabric of such an operation feels a little like chintz. But that's probably middle-class folk-purist inverse snobbism...
...anthology does not hide Belloc's often absurd fixations. But it does reveal a writer of rare genius and rarer virtues, who had a Romanic love of order, ceremony and pietas, a raging contempt for humbug, snobbism and cant, an adult gusto and a childlike faith, an unerring eye for the telling detail of a life or a landscape, and a blunt, stately, crisp and virile style...
Director George Abbott, working on his 113th show, paces Norman like a cannonball express, and the humor is solidly grounded in ethos (Jewish), age (middle), attitudes (parental middle-class), and time (U.S.A., 1970). The co-playwrights, Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick, are nimble and abundant gagsters, and while critical snobbism frequently dismisses TV scripters as beneath Broadway contempt, the fact remains that funny is funny...
Nude Frontier-There is a kind of reverse snobbism in the theater these days in which the drawing room apes the gutter and nudity is the ultimate in chic. Such plays can be crude (Che!), deviant (Geese) or playful (Hair). For a good part of the evening, Oh! Calcutta! is diverting and civilized, though it scarcely provides the "elegant erotica" that Kenneth Tynan promised when he devised the show. Far from being a sexual stimulant, Oh! Calcutta! is an anaphrodisiac...