Word: snobs
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...writer "a tall thin man with hollow sunken cheeks [whose] manner reveals the sort of fawning servility that princes like." All his adult life, Andersen oscillated between vanity and self-abnegation, pride and humility. He was a Christian who rejected the main dogmas of religion, a generous miser, a snob 'who championed the underdog. If contrast described his psyche, irony defined his life. Like Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes entertainments outlasted his "serious" work, Andersen was to see his poetry, novels and travel books fade and his trivia be come immortal...
...remains for these characters, either because--like Becky--they are so much brighter and more intelligent than the world around them, or--like Barry--they are so blissfully unaware of their own caddishness. This mixture of feeling is only to be expected from a man who gave the word "snob" its modern meaning and who also wrote The Book of Snobs, by One of their...
...Leftists scolded me for failing to promote world revolutions. The Zionists reproached me for not dramatizing the struggle of the Jewish state and the heroism of its pioneers." And his hostess adds to this list of grievances when she says she must defend the narrator against attacks of being snob, cynic, misanthrope and recluse...
...from ennobling him, his suffering in prison has left Roche passive and chastened. "You must understand," he tells Jane, "I have always accepted authority." Jane talks fashionably about the world going up in flames, not because she cares for the wretched of the earth but because she is a snob; she does not believe that life could be better, only that existence for people of her breeding is not as nice as it once was. In between lurid fantasies of sexual violence, Ahmed is petulantly worried that a revolution may go on without him at the helm: "When everybody wants...
...Paris, it's New Jimmy's and Le Regine. In Monte Carlo, the snob spots for drinking and dancing are the Maona (Tahitian), Para-dize (Brazilian) and New Jimmyz (art deco). The woman who manages all this, sometime Singer Regine (nee Zylberberg), 45, now plans new discothèques in Rio and Manhattan. "Life begins with the first cocktail," says the lady who introduced le twist to Paris. "She only sleeps three hours a night," adds her husband and former secretary, Roger Choukroun. The cabaret queen is also branching out into fashion design. Her first collection, introduced...