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This statement is followed by a thorough clawing. Raisa Gorbachev is "a cultural and intellectual snob." She is tactless abroad and a hypocrite at home. "Despite all her moralistic lectures," writes Sheehy, "Raisa is known for doing very little to alleviate the cruel conditions that dictate the lives of most of her countrywomen...
...writes, "those who say that PBHA should not become actively involved in electoral politics are criticized for trying to undermine this valuable organization and even question the concept of service" and "anyone who challenges" the tactics and rhetoric of the PBHA Steering Committee...is instantly portrayed as a heartless snob who would like to argue that such stifling tactics do not occur; they most certainly do. However, Cohen makes two errors, perhaps in attempting to keep matters simple...
...will abandon a 40-year tradition of crafting cars exclusively in West Germany. American suppliers have been told that the company plans to open an assembly plant in the U.S. in the mid-1990s to cut delivery time. But will a BMW not built in Bavaria have the same snob appeal...
...worse than 1 out of 4. Perhaps if I had lived somewhere distant like Indiana or California, I might have found comfort in raging against the injustice of East Coast elitism. My problem was that by my senior year in high school, I was already an insufferable East Coast snob. So by the social standards of suburban Connecticut in the mid-1960s, the multiple rejections consigned me to the outer darkness, destined to be shunned on commuter trains, blackballed at country clubs and never allowed to buy a home in a community with four-acre zoning. I would have...
...would claim that Harvard students idolize all assigned reading indiscriminately. We have a tendency to treat Poe more seriously than Stephen King, even if we like King better. A strangely convoluted snob appeal here permits us to submerge our own tastes, at least in class, so that what we like and what we don't like become hopelessly confused. When that happens it's hard for education to be very meaningful...