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Ah, to be so snobbishly proper in a manner that exceeds even the specifications of the foreign culture in question. John Ruskin once snobbishly remarked that 'there was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell . are charged with standing aloof from the "mainstream" of American life, which can mean one of two things: either they were befuddled ivory tower types whose theoretical bent disinclined them from getting their hands dirty in practical matters, or they snobbishly rejected the burgeoning "mainstream" ethos of the Eisenhower-Kennedy years -- that of affluence, acquisitiveness, fake respectability, and guarded ambition. |
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