Culture Vulture

[jester at PANIX.COM]

>
> <<I've only heard 'culture vulture' used for people who do things like go
> to operas.  I've never heard it in any corporate sense.
>
> Dr M Lynne Murphy
> Lecturer in Linguistics
> School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
> University of Sussex
> Brighton BN1 9QH
> UK>>
>
>
> I second that opinion. I recall an English professor friend of mine using it to
> refer to TS Eliot as a champion of high Western culture (to the exclusion of
> other cultures, alas).

The HDAS has an entry for this term with citations going back to
1947 (and bracketed examples to '31).

Jesse Sheidlower
Oxford English Dictionary