Word: snobbisms
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...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...
...Robert Lowell and opera-loving ex-Boxer Gene Tunney. One opera buff recently tried in vain to buy his way into the club with a $25,000 "gift," but membership is by invitation, and openings usually occur only when a member dies. Though the club is frequently accused of snobbism, past President Robert Snyder, a corporation lawyer, declares that "economic status is unknown and unimportant. I imagine that William Rockefeller [an attorney and great-grandnephew of John D.] is solvent, but all we talk about is whether the tenor is any good...