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Neither better nor worse than Hichens' average two-a-year, The Journey Up is the snob story of a mannequin whose social ambitions make a moral and financial wreck of her surgeon-husband. It is a good example of nearly automatic writing. Its only discernible purpose is to keep Author Hichens' income at about $25,000 a year and enable him to lead the comfortable cosmopolitan bachelor existence to which he has become accustomed...
...Riorden, dedicates his son Rory to the cause of Irish revolution, which he laid aside when he became a famous interior decorator. Conveniently for the story, both sons (who also become friends) follow the course laid down for them. Oliver Essex, a beautiful, spoiled child, grows into a handsome snob, treats his doting father like dirt. In spite of that, Essex continues to pamper him. But when Oliver, at 18, wants (and gets) one thing his father never had-a sophisticated beauty named Livia-the Essex-&-son relation blows up, Oliver refuses to return. Meanwhile, Rory O'Riorden becomes...
Meanwhile, Toscanini broadcasts had become Manhattan's musical rage. Fourteen hundred of the musical and broadcasting elite, invited by an unfathomable system, have elbowed each other every week into the NBC auditorium for the privilege of hearing symphonic music under the worst possible acoustical conditions. For outsiders, a snob value has raised ticket scalpers' prices to $25 a pair. When Radio Comedian Fred Allen's scriptwriter recently penned the lines: Q. "What's the difference between me and Toscanini?" A. "He has long hair," art-conscious NBC officials censored the gag. Apparently there is a house...
...Esperanto, which it considerably resembles. Its roots were chosen with great care, however, from various languages, especially English. Dr. Talmey particularly tried to incorporate those national words which have no one-word equivalents in other languages and are therefore frequently borrowed, becoming quasi-international. In English such words are snob, fad, aloof, to glance, to bluff; in German, anheimeln, entmündigen, schadenfroh, Weltschmerz, Zeitgeist; in French chic, aplomb, verve, elite, chicane...
...first great exploder of Victorian hypocrisy, the pioneer rebel and inveigher against cant." Wrong, says Muggeridge. Far from being the great Anti, Butler was the Ultimate Victorian; his wildest crusades simply took him further into a Never-never Land. And Butler, says Muggeridge, was a thin-skinned snob, a spiteful prig...