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Today practitioners of the New Snobbery are largely political liberals, and many of them are even radicals. If they look with scorn at President Johnson and his Great Society, they make a point of looking from the left. Beyond this, the typical New Snob shows great interest in the problems of certain minority groups, and he sometimes goes to great lengths and makes great sacrifices to work for the rights of members of such groups...
People buy foreign goods for many reasons: novelty, fashion, durability, economy, snob appeal. Whatever the reasons, U.S. imports traditionally run at about 3% of the gross national product. That total tends to rise sharply, however, in times of prosperity -and this year it has spurted faster than at any time in a decade. The surge may satisfy the fanciers, and the sellers, of Dutch beer, Swiss watches or Italian fashions, but it bothers the U.S. Government. The nation's trade surplus -the excess of exports over imports-is rapidly shrinking, thus reducing the base that the U.S. has used...
First he had the beastly taste to turn the family's ancestral Woburn Abbey into a ducal Disneyland, with a zoo and souvenir stands. Now Britain's merrily huckstering peer, John, Duke of Bedford, 48, is peddling The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, a 142-page guide to gate crashing the Establishment, in which he details his rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them...
...disk jockey in the county. And the stars' best chance to relax-the private parties local functionaries are always thrusting upon them-are off limits to Mike North's clients. "You can't win," he advises. "If you don't drink, you're a snob, and if you do, you're a gutter drunk...
...Harvard premedical students want to go to Harvard, Columbia, or Cornell. Johns Hopkins, Yale, Penn, Western Reserve, and Rochester are strong second choices. With the burgeoning number of applicants, it is simply not possible for most premedical students to attend a medical school among their first choices. Today's snob might not get to be tomorrow's doctor...