Word: snobbishness
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...despite the explosive nature of the material, not once has anyone hesitated to express a view, no matter how radical or revolutionary. Our only "discussion" stumbling block reared its head Tuesday, when someone questioned the snobbish futility of a bunch of elitist Harvard students sitting around a table halfway across the globe and attempting to "pretend we know what it's like." To which someone else shot back that America was the "last hegemonic power on earth" and that we "screw with a lot of countries we might as well know who we're screwing with." As usual, no holds...
...difference between the two parties. The Bush and Gore attack ads, though, were short, sweet and to the point: Gore is a liar who favors Big Government; Bush is a fool who favors the rich. These may not have been the most ennobling messages, but it would be snobbish to call them irrelevant...
...flummoxed. Because I liked the woman, I set to work remaking myself according to her outline, but midway through my self-improvement drive, she dropped me cold. I was trying too hard, she said. My question to her was, Why would any man slave for riches, cultivate snobbish friends and lie down twice a week on a shrink's couch except to impress some woman? She couldn't answer this...
...Unlike some of her classmates, she had more Harvard friends than Radcliffe friends. The men whom she met through her husband were "a trifle snobbish, but I also think liking the coeducation overall...
Miklos Rozsa paid for his swimming pool by scoring such celluloid epics as Double Indemnity and Ben-Hur. Result: snobbish critics wrongly assumed his concert music was glitzy trash. Five years after his death, the Oscar-winning Hungarian composer is at last getting acclaim for such disciplined yet intensely passionate works as the soaring violin concerto he wrote in 1956 for Jascha Heifetz, newly and brilliantly recorded by McDuffie, Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony. Forget the dumb critics' bum rap--this is great music...