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Dear List,

Martha Bayles reviews Joseph Epstein's SNOBBERY: The American Version in
the New York Times:

"'By his definition, the snob hopes to position himself securely among
those he takes to be the best, most elegant, most virtuous, most
fashionable or exciting people.'  One is tempted to ask what's wrong
with that?  Subtract the word "snob" and  this seems a worthy goal for
anyone, including Epstein, who freely confesses his yearning to
associate with 'people who exhibit style, but style with the strong
suggestion of substance,' like 'Noel Coward, Audrey Hepburn, George
Balanchine, Marcello Mastroianni, Vladimir Nabokov, George Marshall,
Edmund Wilson (when sober), Billy Wilder.'" &n
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