SNOBBISH ON PRINCIPLE
Sir,-I think maybe Miss Campion’s little essay on snobbery in her Auckland Letter of August 23 required more space than she was able to spare. Leaving aside All Black captains (the only alternatives she mentioned) I can think of people with other qualities and characters which to me raise them "head and shoulders" above many intellectuals I know. Is it not possible that her son’s grandfathers’ greatness resided in something other than purely intellectual attainments? Yes, and’ Rex Fairburn’s, too. And lots of mothers and fathers and a few labourers and some other intellectual nonentities I have met. I wonder if the pretension of an intellectual aristocracy is not as outdated as its equivalent in terms of social snobbery-and whether it may not, by its very arrogance, help to produce the stubborn anti-intellectualism which Miss Campion deplores.
HENRY
WALTER
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 944, 13 September 1957, Page 11
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143SNOBBISH ON PRINCIPLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 944, 13 September 1957, Page 11
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