Word: snobs
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...Snob Appeal. It is not by accident that backgammon has been rediscovered. Ten years ago, Prince Alexis ("Obie") Obolensky, a member of the jet set and a shrewd entrepreneur, set out to make backgammon a popular game. Phase 1 of his elaborate strategy was to exploit backgammon's snob appeal. He haunted the posh watering places from Palm Beach to Gstaad, talking up the game. "I made people think they should be doing it, that only the best people were involved," he recalls. "We brought in snobbism. Only in America can that kind of thing be done...
...became a writer without benefit of higher education, literary mentors or even good advice. Instinct made the 20-year-old Pritchett leave the leather trade in London and set off for Paris in 1921. He saw his first pepper mill, ate his first omelet, became an accent snob and-so far as he could afford a fop. In a more gradual way, "the orderliness of the trees, the gravely spaced avenues, rearranged my mind...
...less complicated situations they can help correct an impression of bad manners. A middle-class man who finds himself seated next to an "inferior" on a crowded bus "makes sure to present a bustling, purposeful air" when he gets off so that everyone understands he is no snob changing seats but just a man who has reached his destination...
...Hour Drink Book), can write dialogue that gets off the train at Westport. He can compose scenes that seem to come from a camera rather than a type writer. He makes superb use of his country club to write a short history of the decline and fall of the snob in America. But he shows no faith in his material. Just when he should be putting it all together, he takes it all apart, hurrying on to play a stand-up comedian in print - he becomes an anything-for-a-laugh gagster, spouting Mafia jokes, even a little garment industry...
...first James still represents the official stereotype. Here is the high priest of art who refined himself right out of life, the superfastidious intellect whom Theodore Roosevelt called an "effete" and "miserable little snob," the too-exquisite stylist whom H.G. Wells described as a "leviathan retrieving pebbles." Edel's formidable accomplishment has been to unveil the second James in all his surprising robustness and to give this figure equal space on the wall...