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...well as the Irish, the Italians and the Polish, nonetheless feel that everyone is prejudiced against them and that no one listens. But Coles, as always, did listen. One thing he heard was angry criticism of "the radicals," "the peace crowd" who "don't really love this country," "the snob-students" and "the professors, the big-brain types who look down on the rest of us." The Middle Americans resent being scorned: "I'm as much of a person as anybody, even if I don't talk a lot of big words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Breaking the American Stereotypes | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...Anti-Snob. Davis is doing his part to break down tiara snobbishness. On the opening night of this season, he coolly appeared in a stage box wearing a sweater. He already has an avid youthful following as a result of his appearances at London's summertime prom concerts, and he hopes to attract the same following to Covent Garden. "I'd like an audience that has less interest in the past and more interest in the present and is an average of 15 years younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: An Ordinary Bloke | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...book reports, eventually took note of the special circumstances raised by ocean travel. "The Worldlys always have their meals served in their own 'drawing-rooms,' and have their deck chairs placed so that no one is very near them," she wrote; however, "none but the rudest snob would sit through meal after meal without ever addressing a word to his table companions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leviathans | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...chief of staff. After studying the archives, the program's director said: "He couldn't work with large bodies, and he panicked when faced with great tasks." Rommel's appeal to Hitler, suggested General Wolf von Baudissin, was that, like the Fiihrer himself, "he was no snob and no intellectual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 29, 1971 | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...many times, you get bored. There's very little difference in genitalia, even between the genitalia of a star and the genitalia of some unknown." But in Atlanta, Exhibitor Moscow says, "You'd be surprised at the nice ladies who like those raunchy movies. It's snob appeal, hobnobbing with the riffraff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: NATO Is a House o' Weenies | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

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