Word: snobbisms
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...sincere congratulations go to Van Meegeren for being a great craftsman, and for having exposed . . . the snobbism which prevails in the art circles...
...himself a Catholic, the "terrible obscurantism" is what made some conservative U.S. Catholics pro-Fascist before the war, because they were ready to believe that Mussolini et al. would stamp out Communism. They were also antiliberal, anti-Negro, and anti-Semitic for a number of reasons, including Irish racial snobbism. As fiction, Moon Gaffney is hardly rnore than earnest and competent, but it is most impressive as a blast against bias, false Irish pride and the local little Father Coughlins...
...Rand. The trouble with advertising art, Kauffer says, is "fright and [the] over-organized departments" of huckster-dom: "This in-between world of research, rationalization and sales talk no doubt gives the client faith and courage-but it generally kills the designer's value. . . . Fear, sex, maternity, snobbism, such are the themes of 90% of advertising that daily haunt our eyes. Hitting below the belt, appealing to our fears, and undermining our ideals-a vortex of banalities, a rubbish dump of overstatement...
...gives to Gerald's death "a kind of primitive dignity" by describing the servants who wept: "They had not liked Gerald, but he was a man, they were women, he had died." In A Passage To India, Cyril Fielding, who as a bachelor bravely opposed Anglo-Indian snobbism and narrowness, becomes snobbish and narrow himself when he marries and becomes an official. Dr. Aziz changes from the sensitive, enlightened Indian to an impudent, cocksure babu...
Though Russell, a British earl, dislikes his title, his wife called herself Lady Russell when telephoning the Foundation. This infuriated Barnes, who carries anti-snobbery to a point of fanatic snobbism. Snorted he: "She seems to have difficulty swallowing the impressive title of Lady Russell. It evidently gets stuck just below her larynx for she regurgitates it automatically...