Word: arroganceã
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...Summers said to me, words to the effect of, ‘I like what you guys do. I don’t particularly like what [the social anthropologists] do,’” said Ellison.Ellison said the incident illustrated Summers’ “intellectual arrogance?? in judging the relative merits of fields of scholarship—and revealed how he polarized the Faculty as well.“It’s an invitation to colleagues to form little cabals against each other in currying presidential favor,” Ellison said...
Back in the fall of 2001, Tufts Dean Charles Inouye told the Tufts Daily News that grade inflation at Harvard was “just another symptom of their culture of arrogance??image over substance.” And he went further. “Everybody in the business knows just how little Harvard students work,” he asserted. “They’re essentially a lazy bunch. A lot of them aren’t even that smart...
...West takes particular issue with the Bush administration specifically—hence the “evangelical nihilistic arrogance?? charge—and with America’s prosecution of the war on terror more generally. He uses the term “niggerization of America” to describe a country that in the wake of September 11, 2001 shares the black experience of being widely hated by others. West says America has responded to international terror with a hatred that blacks have historically not employed when struggling against American terror and hate directed against them...
...tough comparative message delivered without the occasional Reaganesque wink, grin or chuckle can seem mean. That night, polling put Kerry’s “personal favorability” rating above Bush’s for the first time. And the president’s scowling, stammering arrogance??his shock and awe that someone in the same room would doubt his judgment—might also call into question the Republicans’ decision to shield Bush from anyone but his most devout supporters for the last four years...
Franken, who says his “youthful arrogance?? made him realize the show would be a hit, quickly developed political sketches as a staple...