Word: snobbishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vehicle of Expression. The Scots view the English as wanton spendthrifts locked into an immutably snobbish class system. By contrast, they emphasize their own rough candor and their belief in a radical kind of social justice. "The only class accent in Scotland," says Poet Sorley Maclean, "is the English...
Magazines ought to have some reason for their existence beyond their potential profitability. People just conceivably could be meant to provide entertainment. But if it ever does so, it will succeed by appealing to its readers worst instincts, their snobbish regressive ambitions to vicariously share in the tinsel elitism that Peoplecaptures with such fidelity...
...snobbish attention to one kind of music to the exclusion of all others is something peculiar to our own times," he says. "In the 16th century, Palestrina used street songs in his Masses. Mozart and Beethoven wrote both classical and 'pop' music, and Bartok used the folk music of Hungary to build impressive symphonic works. The snobbism works both ways," he adds. "There are Rolling Stones freaks who won't listen to anything else either...
...with the reader. Schaffer sets out to murder and bury that genre--as if Dashiell Hammett's and Raymond Chandler's cynically brutal crime stories had not already done so--by revealing Wyke's vindictive hypocrisy and then having Tindle attack Wyke's books as "the normal recreation of snobbish, outdated, life-hating, ignoble minds...
Orwell's primary autobiographical concern was the development of his socialist tendencies. Not unnaturally he looked to his marginal class background, and humiliating status as a scholarship boy at very snobbish schools. It is a vein that can be mined only so far, so Orwell generally diverts his energies from explaining his personal disorientation, disenchantment and dismay. Instead he evocatively and intuitively explores how the situations that affected him came to be. The man had a distaste for social theory that matched his descriptive ability, and the result was a socialist with politics based on "decency" and most often defined...