Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle-class placidity masks a history of inner whirl-some past, some still to come. Hints dropped to the sister by Elizabeth's friends, a series of flashbacks, provide Elizabeth with a full set of sexual and social complexes. The mother-dominated daughter of a New York social snob, she has been nudged into a more active life and a less glittering marriage by her democratic-minded father. For years she has tried to live down to her husband's in come, loyally cultivated the rest of the faculty for the good of his career...
...read a thriller by Ian Fleming is bloody well aware why the Russians have absquatulated with so many of Britain's state secrets. It's that blinking British Agent 007, it's that blithering bounder James Bond! To begin with, the man is an appliance snob-doesn't really mind if he shoots the wrong bloke so long as he shoots him with the right gun (8.5 oz. Beretta .25); wouldn't be caught dead, when he skindives after a killer, in anything but the very latest scuba suit. What's more...
...Tech, who appears to her as a wonderful being, "exotic and remote as a maharajah"-but who makes less money than the gardener. Decker's father-still hung up on a bogus buddyhood with war cronies-is a martini-oiled mechanism, a country-club wine-and-food snob and bore. His grandfather is a picture of the indignity of a foolish old age. After a successful life as a real estate shark, the old phony has set himself up disguised as a grizzled sourdough pioneer of the Old West-he came from Iowa-and runs a California-type museum...
...snoots the common man. "Can it seriously be argued," he asked, after observing the deportment of a hockey crowd, "that these ignorant, ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligans-common men all-are the equals of the civilized products of Groton?" All this, Frazier hopes, qualifies him as something of a snob. It is a badge he wears proudly, like the Legion of Honor...
Besides, the food was passing fair. The prince's snob appeal was pure, being unfettered by real connections. And Romanoff's became one of the best-known restaurants anywhere. The shadow prince became just another honest Boniface. A businessman. A tradesman. A merchant. A non-fraud! Even the glitter of the real tinsel had worn...