Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hence the glorious relief of those recent holiday meals. The food is unreformed, archaic, predictable -- mashed potatoes and gravy, overcooked veggies, huge slabs of pie. It's democratic, if not downright egalitarian -- meaning pretty much the same collection of foodstuffs whether you dine in a mansion or a soup kitchen. We can give thanks, with a chorus of satisfied belches, that the food is for once meant just to be filling, and that the only entertainment we're likely to find at the table is the people who are seated around...
These fraternities and sororities undermine the diverse, co-educational structure of Harvard's dormitory life. While the Yard and houses promote feelings of togetherness and tolerance, organizations that discriminate because of sex or race detract from Harvard's egalitarian spirit. One need not even mention the other kinds of discrimination that traditionally pervade selection processes for fraternities and sororities...
...scientists returning to Asia bring more than just a Westernized preference for cappuccino over tea. They also carry with them a penchant for challenging the status quo. Until recently, Asian funding agencies still doled out research money according to traditional egalitarian formulas, with little regard for quality. Now they are being pressured to establish peer-review panels staffed by scientific experts to gauge the merit of competing proposals. Automatic promotions, still typical at many academic institutions, are also coming under attack, and some brave souls have even mounted an assault on the Confucian ethos -- particularly its stultifying worship of professors...
Kilson said the Black middle class must find "some way to get the new capital of the new, bourgeois Black America into the process of exporting egalitarian progress for the weakest...
...decision strangled a move that, while not ground breaking on its own, might have been the first step in a move toward more open, egalitarian clubs...