Word: snobs
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...fire inspector. After making his name as a jazz critic, ubiquitous freelance and LIFE writer, the widely read gadfly went on to ramble polysyllabically about style, taste and whatever else he fancied in his Boston Herald and, later, Boston Globe columns. Proud of his image as a professional snob-he proclaimed the common man an "ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligan"-Frazier brought his own hot dogs to baseball games and named among his bêtes noires white socks ("Shoot 'em on sight. As bad as turtlenecks...
While too many unthinkingly declare Eliot "the greatest poet of this century," Robert Frost was no less rash, dubbing him "a tricky poet and mealymouthed snob." Indiscriminate condemnation and equally indiscriminate Eliotolatry have characterized public opinion from the beginning. Matthews consistently avoids, or at least conceals, such head-over-heels bias; he confronts the man on equal ground...
...melodrama-subtitle it The Snob's Revenge-Read's romance twirls its waxed mustaches too wickedly. (In training for his major villainies, the parson's son also steals, pimps, and drowns a newborn baby.) Read's true gothic gift is for translating melodrama into a morality play: plotting on tabloid pulp paper while commenting on the finest India leaf. It is as a study of repentance that Read's story demands to be taken seriously...
...Anyone who would not include Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony Orchestra on an orchestral "on the rise" list is either shortsighted, a cultural snob or has a closed mind...
...failed to mention that backgammon has been the most popular game in Middle Eastern countries, from Greece to Iran, for many centuries, and it is not considered the game of the snob. It is a common sight to see people of all walks of life sitting at street corners playing the game...