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Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford by the grace of Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, was an arrogant, auburn-haired New England dandy with a taste for rich widows and a talent for cultivating royalty. Egotistical and a thoroughgoing snob, he deserted the colonies during the American Revolution and went into the pay of the British. But for all his faults, he was a remarkable scientist. In a bright, admiring new book, An American in Europe (Rider & Co., London), British Journalist Egon Larsen celebrates the 200th birthday of "the insufferable genius...
They knew all the time he'd turn into a snob...
They appear in The Vagrant Mood, a slim volume of urbane table talk ranging from the decline of the detective story to Immanuel Kant's theory of beauty, from Edmund Burke's literary style to a profile of an eccentric 10th century English snob named Augustus Hare. Proof that the "Old Party's" writing hand has lost none of its cunning is the fact that he can make such unlikely subjects just as likeable reading as his personal memories of Novelists Henry James and H. G. Wells, which he tucks into the same book...
More power to Barbara Brown and her campaign against the "snob sisters." ... I am quite sure that I don't want my daughter to be educated to condone dirty politics for the sake of the "right" combination of Greek-letter men, draw only one line in life-the color line, think that a pin serves as the key to every door approached, judge another by her seams instead of her soul, bow to a "beta" but never bend her knee in prayer, or be humiliating but never humble...
Otto J. Gombosi, professor of Music, yesterday denied that there is anything to get excited about in this statement. "There is no need for those of us who still value antiquarianism and even the snob appeal of a 'gentleman's education' to get hot under the collar. Of course, a world without snobs would be terribly lonely for us, and the teaching of the arts in General Education would find itself on the old spot of 'ain't it lovely.' I am sure this is not what Conant had in mind...