Word: elitist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 7 Cambridge policemen were called out, but they merely instructed the students not to block the sidewalk. Students near the door held signs stating that "Hazen's is elitist." They asked potential customers to join the boycott...
Monday night my birthdate came up second out of 366, smashing my hope of painlessly escaping a system whose purpose and methods appall me. I had seen the opening: parlaying four years of an elitist deferment with an unreachably high birthdate number, which would carry me until my liability ended. Instead, a random grab at pile of capsules has permanently cemented the alliance between my self-interest and my most detached political beliefs. I think draft resistance would have remained my political position after it no longer had to be my personal position. As it is. I'm not given...
...much of student activism. Students toed the party line. There was only one real student organization, IUNEF, IUnion Nationale des Students de France, created in 1907. Only after the First World War when the siblings of the middle and lower bourgeoisie began entering the university did IUNEF lose its elitist outlook and provide "services materiales" (rooms, student restaurants, student reductions) for its members...
...wars to their immediate demands, to the fact that they and their sons die in the war, that it is a war for the rich-the class perspective." During the workin, students were to challenge racism among white workers, to explain their campus goals, and to "break down bourgeois, elitist ideas in ourselves" about workers...
...which is a fine history of higher education in America, but which has some glaring commissions on federal influence and the rise of the multiversity.) Barzun's book was generally discredited by the liberals who read this sort of thing. He appeared to be too much of an educational elitist, and he made some nasty remarks about students. And he seemed to be against progress...