Word: egalitarian
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...intensity of urban violence, though, the actual incidents of malfeasance—burning cars, pelting police and firemen with rocks and bottles—are very common. Despite the popular stereotypes of American cities as drug-infested dens of violence and European cities as clean, safe, and egalitarian, crime rates in European cities have been skyrocketing for the past decade and have equaled—and in many cases surpassed—those of their American counterparts. Part of the reason that the riots were so difficult for many to comprehend here is that they cut against so many ingrained...
Surely this type of dark-age bigotry was relegated to nothing but memory. Snobbery seems part of that bygone era of unpleasant memories here at our enlightened institution of learning—an era that was long ago replaced by the egalitarian progressive paradise that is today’s Cambridge, Mass. Today, we tell ourselves, Harvard students are accepting of those different than us, and would never exhibit any of the mannerisms of those old, dead, white, European males we so often mock...
...most freshmen will have realized by now, Harvard isn’t quite the liberal, egalitarian paradise that its conservative detractors make it out to be. Among the social activists, progressives, and left-leaning intellectuals that populate this campus, there lurk shadowy organizations that conservatively cling to tradition and anachronism, even in the face of great societal progress. The vast majority of the freshman class encounters these nocturnal beasts even before they arrive at Harvard, during pre-frosh weekend. And those who escape them then are nevertheless ensnared by the end of their first week on campus. With names that...
...clear to see in Gore's business ventures some of the same instincts that, for better or worse, shaped his political career: an ability to discern the future, an appetite for complexity, a faith in the egalitarian forces of technology--and an impulse to take a big risk. Those traits are what had Gore worried about global warming decades ahead of almost everyone else and running for President before his 40th birthday. Under Bill Clinton, he pushed to reinvent the massive federal bureaucracy and wire every classroom to the Internet. In his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign, Gore once even considered...
...following the adoption of a new law that allows a return to the Viking tradition of patronymics. Instead of maintaining a single last name across generations, each generation of children, in this system, is given a last name that consists simply of the father?s (or in these gender-egalitarian times, the mother?s) first name with the suffix ?son? or ?datter? (daughter) added...