Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sartre (who is not a Jew himself), anti-Semitism is sometimes the mediocre snob's means to a social end. ("Proust showed, for example, how anti-Dreyfusism brought the duke closer to his coachman . . ."). It also makes the French (or U.S.) Jew feel that no matter how hard he tries to be a real Frenchman (or American) he can never really be one-which makes the Gentile feel more like part of the nation's backbone himself...
...snob appeal, T. & C. once carried a double-truck "social calendar" and a nightclub column; but by the time Bull tossed them out the magazine had somewhat outgrown its adoration of Society. During the war, deprived of travel news and automotive ads, it took refuge in fashions ; now it is broadening its base to run more of its famous literary letters from abroad, more sports, more art. (This year it has doubled its 25,000 circulation.) Its theater critic: Harry Bull, only editor member of Manhattan's Drama Critics Circle...
...sluggishly melodramatic Paris sequences, Clifton Webb is an amusing old expatriate snob, Herbert Marshall plays Mr. Maugham himself and Anne Baxter is a frantically unhappy girl who takes to drink in low Apache dives. Elsa Lanchester is refreshingly expert in a tiny comedy...
...name. Examples: a yellow ticker tape tangled with prancing red devils, called "Ticker Tape"; a naked urchin facing a dark-green background of cactus, called "Cactus Also Needs Water." (There are also a few less discreet themes which have to be kept under the vest in polite company.) For snob appeal, Mrs. Whitman printed only 30 dozen of each design, with her crested monogram on each...
...testimony, Balzac's load of debt from his business failures and love of high living seems to have driven him on to writing as much as women or the urge to power. The ill-mannered, unkempt son of a tight-fisted petit bourgeois, he was at heart a snob and a social climber who faked a claim to nobility. To keep up with the post-Napoleonic Joneses, Balzac sat at his table for twelve hours a day, years on end, turning out alternately tripe and masterpieces. Before he was 40 his fame was such that publishers bought and paid...