Word: snobbisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Gucci-shod footsteps, but what it adds up to after the checks are spent is more like fatuous Frommer than fastidious Fielding. Just as Lucius Beebe and his private railway car made few if any sociological waves, so Fielding and his portable martini mixer are headed for inverted snobbism's dubious Hall of Fame. NORMAN READER Amagansett...
There is a kind of tension every summer, an unofficial segregation of the "summies" from the Harvard and Radcliffe students. It is in part snobbism, and in part due to the fact that Harvard and Radcliffe students live off-campus during the summer, while others tend to live in Summer School housing...
...therefore, forced to admit that today people send their sons to prep schools for purely social reasons: as a sign of economic achievement, as a perpetuation of a family tradition, or as plain and simple snobbism...
...many musicians, the most fascinating psychic jungle is that of the symphony orchestra. Flutists tell dark tales of suicides among "rejected" second violinists; trumpet players attribute the snobbism of first violinists to an "identity crisis" resulting from their "cloistered, velvet-pants upbringing." And almost everyone is convinced that all oboe and bassoon players are a little batty. London's Royal Philharmonic members nod understandingly when one of their fellow players, Nicholas Reader, admits that he reads fairy tales to his bassoon each night...