Carrol Cox wrote:
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> That is, Good Taste is displayed, regularly, by
> displaying one's freedom from its opposite, Bad Taste (in some circles,
> equated with vulgarity). One IS what one hates
What play from ca. 1900 contains a line something like, "We leave living to the servants"? That is the sort of attitude I was gunning for in my original post. It seems to me supercilious looks down the nose at insipidity, etc. exhibit that king of perspective.
Carrol