Word: snobs
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...years ago, Bill Clinton, now 35, was the youngest Governor in the U.S. and a rising star in the national Democratic Party. But Clinton, educated at Yale and Oxford, had picked up a reputation with many back home in Arkansas as an effete snob. He was unseated in 1980 by Republican Frank White, who portrayed himself as the down-home candidate. This time Clinton ran as a man who was not too smart to listen to the people. He won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in a runoff and faces a November rematch with White...
...semibuilt. Today, nearly 60 years after the Florida land bubble burst, Boca Raton and its environs really are almost beyond realness. The international rich have rediscovered the Gold Coast's Palm Beach County. Though it includes the town of Palm Beach, this incubator for the newly wealthy is snob years distant from that small, code-ridden oasis of blue blood and encrusted money. The Gold Coast nouveaux, for the most part lustier, sportier and much younger than the ancien régime of Worth Avenue, converge from all over the world to flaunt their millions. As Ralph Destino, president...
...financial aid opportunities afforded those who transcend the cut-off mark. Bok was taken by his foes to mean that only the elite should reap the rewards of federal dollars. Aha! said reporters and columnists, educators and students: The president of Harvard has finally exposed himself as a closet snob...
...group of individuals, that the concerns of those individuals are greeted with more than lip service because they are regarded as direct indicators of how Harvard will ultimately fare in benefitting the public interest. Otherwise, in dealing with important issues only in macroscopic terms. Derek Bok becomes a snob in a substantive way, especially in the eyes of those for whom he pretends to speak...
...scarcely luckier at home. Andrew's wife Millie (Sheila Allen) is something of a snob, a shrew and a slut. Millie's only gift for truth is the poisonously emasculating one of recounting her adulteries to her husband. Her current affair with a virile and popular teacher (Edmond Genest) carries its own brand of pain; her lover clearly intends to break...