Word: egalitarian
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...victim of Reynolds' diatribe was none other than eminent Supreme Court liberal, Associate Justice William Brennan. Brennan's opinions, Reynolds declared, demonstrate that the Justice seeks a "radical egalitarian" society...
...place of intricate plotting, hidden clues and surprise solutions, American detective fiction relies on character and language. Both are aggressively egalitarian, rejecting fancy airs and flowery talk. Here is Marlowe recalling a visit to a client: "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars." He and his kin are cynical, terse and masters of an amiably menacing tone that echoes the classic response to insult of Owen Wister's The Virginian: "When you call...
...Massachusetts doctors have been utterly callous in their reaction, the argument of the medical faction on the malpractice insurance issue is still the most convincing one. Though its rhetoric may appear territorial, the medical plea for moderating the run-away malpractice problem is a reasonable one with comparatively egalitarian consequences...
...does not mean that they are resigning their participation in this community. Rather it means, they have also expressed a desire to enjoy the friendship and camaradarie with a small group of males (thereby actually increasing such participation). This hardly means, as Mr. Grossman states, that they are anti-egalitarian, aristocratic and anti-community, to believe this is to be very native indeed. The clubs are not a statement, as he is led to believe, rather they are facilities for a small group of friends who simply enjoy each others' company, at times. To label such desires for close fraternal...
...harder still to understand why so many of us have remained silent for so long. Why haven't President Bok and the college deans issued statements condemning the aristocratic, anti-egalitarian and anti-community values of the clubs? Why don't students express more disbelief and repugnance when their peers announce intentions to join a club? Why do some women apparently allow themselves to be brought in through back stairways or to be served chicken dinners while the men are served steak? Finally, why do club members who joined with visions of reform still belong after being unable to effect...