Word: egalitarians
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...story is nice, contrasting elitist Brahmin Harvard with the egalitarian upstart Stanford—which in a little more than a century has risen to be one of the most esteemed universities in the country, and is now commonly considered an Ivy of the West...
...Betsy Ross were designing the American flag today, her task would be much simpler. She could just hoist a pair of old jeans up the flagpole. Egalitarian, utilitarian and rugged, jeans project the American sensibility. And as a standard bearer of America's global dominance, they stride where even Coca-Cola fears to tread. But recently jeans have become something else as well. They have become expensive, elitist and European...
...think its probably unfortunate the way that they are set up—its not egalitarian, but at the same time by trying to prosecute the clubs, essentially trying to close them down, does not take into consideration the effort and expense the members of the club put forward. [It is] for themselves, yes, but also to supplement a fairly difficult social setting,” the final club president said...
Arts institutions see the Internet as a way to keep pace with the modern world, to shed the lingering perception that they are highbrow or isolationist. The Web, the ultimate in egalitarian communication, serves as a leveler, reaching people within the neighborhood or across the country. It offers arts institutions a chance to hook kids right at their keyboard, enticing the next generation of museumgoers or symphony attendees to discover the wonders of the arts. "We want to get kids when they're young, get them excited," says Michael Cassin, curator of education at the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute...
...Newbury Street exhibited a new and seemingly random assortment of art, including works by Josef Albers, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Brice Marden, Allan McCollum, Fred Sandback, and Bill Wheelock. Barbara Krakow includes international and local artists in her exhibitions. This is not necessarily because she is an egalitarian. She also uses her aesthetic judgment in choosing what artwork she will show...