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THERE was a day, however, when Romanoff's was faced with A ruin by the very snob appeal that had helped make it famous. The original restaurant, which had a front room and a back room, in time became such a reviewing stand for the great that if any eminent patron was not given one of the five tables in the front room he would leave. Inasmuch as almost every customer considered himself entitled to one of these tables, and no one wanted to be seen alive in the back room, the seating problem became acute. In 1950, Romanoff...
Conant admits that not all parents who send their children to private (or parochial) schools do so for religious or "snob" reasons; many do it because they feel that some U.S. public high schools are inadequate. To these parents Conant offers rather cold comfort: "The family will have to balance these misgivings against the advantages to the boy of mixing with all sorts of people...
Those who listed Eliot as their top choice did so on the basis of its social reputation, along with its Master and tutors. One man stated "I am a born snob" as his reason. Another listed "Club aspirations...
There is no use for us who are emotionally committed to public schools as schools for all to denounce or bemoan the growth of private schools. The founding of a new independent school in a locality is a challenge to those connected with public education. Granted the "snob aspect" of some of these new independent schools, nevertheless, I feel sure in many cases they would never have come into existence if the management of the local high schools had been wiser. Education is a social process. This is a free country and people will not be pushed around by educators...
...stylistic exercises which at first sight disturb, or even horrify, but which, on analysis, reveal elements derived from remote antiquity or the art-forms of primitive peoples . . . [His] ceaseless industry . . . may seem to some capricious and rootless, but it undoubtedly deserves its reward in the greatest snob-following of our time...