Word: snobs
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...first sight Stevens' mental world looks like a five-ring circus of private hallucinations. This effect is partly deliberate, since Stevens is enough of an art snob to enjoy amazing an audience. But he is, despite his snobbery, one of the most seriously purposive poets alive...
Though he feuded with aristocrats, he preserved his awe of them. As a self-avowed snob, he considered himself the high priest of what remained of the old social aristocracy which had been all but obliterated by the rising horde of new millionaires spawned...
...goes into New Lecture Hall at eight o'clock again tonight on its accelerated program. The pictures are Dostoyevaski's "Crime and Punishment" and "Tanks." the famous OEM documentary of the production war. The Society is showing Pierre Blauchard's French version of a Russian novel not for its snob appeal, the Executive Committee states, but "because students want to see good pictures, as they have during the Society's six-year existence...
...McCann ($2.50). This rather touching, mildly mystical story of England-after-Dunkirk transforms England's caste system into one big family of stout-fellas. High point of this social salad-mixing comes when a shy little housekeeper, Miss Brown, proposes to her elderly patrician employer, Charles Birley. No snob, Birley prefers bachelorhood. But Miss Brown's leveling instincts achieve satisfaction in others who need her: two cockney children and a soul-sick refugee violinist whom she selflessly agrees to marry...
...East 77th Street and squire Finch's pretty girls around the town without a chaperone (at Finch a date is known as "the little man"). Mrs. Cosgrave does not expect her new plan to change the character of her school. Twinkles she: "Finch will continue to have snob appeal...