Word: snobbism
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Misch is crusading to "unmask the snobbism" against domestic wines. He hopes "Harvard men will be pioneers in such an enlightenment crusade...
...Longing for Delacroix. For all his success with contemporary art, Soby at 54 has misgivings about such a collection. "There is too much snobbism today about the impressionists, and about the contemporaries, about buying the work of a 'living' artist, and about having 'modern' taste. As a result, a lot of interesting work is being neglected-Italian mannerism, for example, or the art of 19th century Venice, or early 19th century German romanticism. One longs to enter a house or apartment in which Delacroix hangs in Renoir's place, or Courbet in Cezanne...
...accent into every home, caste-conscious Britain was still confronted by an unexpected phenomenon of the welfare state: equality of opportunity had eased the economic tensions in Marx-proclaimed "class conflict," but it had led to a sharp increase in what the sociologists call "status conflict"-in other words, snobbism...
Each country came by the craze in its own way. In Paris, Jacques de Saint-Phalle, whose respectable business has been the manufacture of plastic tubes for hospitals and laboratories, decided to hop aboard the bandwagon-but on "a snobbism level." In France, he reasoned, the quickest way to get a fad started was to set the intellectuals to doing it. First intellectual to have her picture snapped inside a hoop: Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan. With shapely entertainers getting into the act, Saint-Phalle had another fear: that the church might find the hula movement erotic and condemn...
...when page after page of unselective trivia has been set down, the reader finds himself aching for an earplug. O'Hara continues to describe the nuances of social habit with rare authority in a society in which social flux continuously alters the symbols of prestige. But the snobbism of the right prep school, the right club, the right street in the right exurb becomes so intrusive that Terrace often reads like a gigantic menu...