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...next day, White indignantly cried foul. He had given the letter to Winchell only with the understanding that Winchell would repudiate Billingsley and his "anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, antilabor, pro-snob attitude." Snapped White: he hadn...
What should an architect try to do, anyway? Said Lancaster: "The role of the architect lies between that of the plumber and the sculptor, but seldom midway. If, like the majority of 19th Century architects, he is an esthetic snob, he will get as close to the sculptor as he can. If, like most contemporary artists, he is an inverted snob, he will suck up to the plumber . . . Their conflicting theories [are] almost exactly complementary and, in my view, equally suspect...
When it began, five years ago, the BBC's Third Programme was damned with faint praise or jeered at as a "pretentious and high falutin' present for the esthete and the intellectual snob." Last week, on its fifth anniversary, the robustly highbrow Third found the critical climate a good deal more cordial. Seated before a microphone in a BBC subbasement studio, Controller Harman Grisewood noted: "Birthday greetings do not usually take the form of congratulations at having survived. Yet. . . five years are long enough for the programme to have died a natural death if it were not wanted...
...great Portland stone facade with its massive Corinthian columns has dominated Oxford Street, one of the city's greatest shopping centers; its aggressive merchandising and flamboyant promotions have changed the pace of British retailing. Second largest store in London,* Selfridge's has little of the snob appeal of its competitors. Said one regular customer: "In Fortnum & Mason's you feel ill at ease without a mink, at Harrods you feel uncomfortable without a hat, but at Selfridge's you feel at home in a cotton dress and sandals." It comes closer to being...
Twenty years later, Roosevelt summarized the two schools: "Unquestionably the evil development of Harvard is the snob, exactly as the evil development of Yale is the cad; upon my word, of the two I think the cad the least unhealthy, though perhaps the most objectionable person...