Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could modern art ever mean so much to so many as Millet or Alma-Tadema had? Museum Director Fiske Kimball was not taking any bets. But in a thoughtful foreword to the show he pointed out that the art of the snob of today is often that of the minority of tomorrow and the majority of the day after tomorrow: "The public, which doesn't know much about art but 'knows what it likes,' actually likes what it knows...
...boyish-looking bachelor of 29, he worked hard to prove he was no snob. By campaign's end he had made some 450 speeches before luncheon clubs, Catholic societies, the Camelia Lodge of Sons of Italy. He ate spaghetti with Italians, drank tea with Chinese, sipped sirupy coffee with Syrians. He stuck to local topics: restoration of Boston's port, encouragement of New England industries, aid for veterans...
...kidding of naively melodramatic antifascists comes a few years late, but it still tickles. Thanks to the knowledgeable irony of Producer-Director Ernst Lubitsch, the snob mannerisms of the three classes, which might have been heavy going, become deftly funny. The whimsically dizzy heroine, who leaves her hoofprints in the ferns and her bloomers all over the place, was rather wearing for some readers of Margery Sharp's popular novel; but Jennifer Jones does her proud. Charles Boyer wastes his talents like a gentleman, and Una O'Connor, without a line to her name, is a howl...
Evelyn Waugh is a devout Catholic. He is also a devout esthete and a devout snob. This week, in LIFE, he wrote an open letter to U.S. readers of his best-selling Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7), which showed that these three traits are inseparable parts of his fastidious revulsion from the godless, uncivilized age in which he finds himself. He also revealed that-as some critics of Brideshead had sug-rested-his literary motivation is basically religious...
...Snob Value. As it did to all Londoners, the war came to Connolly. A German bomb fell across the street from his office, delaying one issue for weeks. He never did catch up with his schedule. Last week his February issue, on the stands in London, had not yet reached its 500 U.S. subscribers. When the paper shortage pinched Britain in 1941, Horizon all but starved to death. Appeals from such surprising readers as Manhattan's Fiorello LaGuardia convinced the British Government that the magazine should be kept alive. (Last year it lost only ?30 and considered...