Word: egalitarians
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...staff so self-righteously crusades against elitism, one fact becomes painfully clear: none of the staff members were fortunate enough to be punched for an exclusive club. We sense profound pangs of resentment in our fellow editors who, after all, over-came their egalitarian principles long enough to attend the epitome of elitism: venerable Harvard University...
Instead of supporting non-discriminatory, egalitarian groups such as Philos, which is bleeding to death for lack of interest, they are choosing to continue the cycle of elitism that has spiraled out of control at Harvard for so long. We already have the Fly, the Fox, the Owl, the Phoenix and the Bee in the Harvard social zoo; who needs a Lynx...
...Lillehammer Games began in panoply and kitsch, they seemed, especially to Americans, painfully ill-starred. From murder and mayhem to medical peril, from fatal accidents to merely mortifying tumbles, from wolf- pack aggression by American reporters to spontaneous affronts by the egalitarian hosts toward the pampered panjandrums of the International Olympic Committee, the news often evoked disillusionment or dismay...
...well established, centrally located and well funded, have a better chance for longevity than other social clubs; the Fly is likely to be representative of the future of organized social life at Harvard. It will be interesting to see whether the admission of women will make the club more egalitarian generally. Will the punch remain closed to most students, or will the club open up the punch, seek Harvard recognition and somehow try to integrate itself positively into the community? Frankly, the former option seems the more probable...
...making future sources of funding angry. I can walk in the door and say what I see in the room and walk out. That's what I do. I tell the truth. I believe very strongly in equality for women, and there's only one way to get it. Egalitarian feminism is the only way. That's the story. Egalitarian feminism says equality of opportunity and pay, period. That's it. People say women have special problems. Well, men have special problems. I'm very tall. That's a special problem." Here Crichton is arguing, as his book does, against...