Word: elitist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What is elitist about believing in the ERA, religious freedom, compassion for the poor, clean air, pro-choice on abortion and comparable pay for comparable work? Citizens who are concerned with these issues are responsible Americans...
...first involves Harvard's ever-gingerly relations with the city of Boston. Efforts by Harvard students and administrators to counter the University's image as an elitist occupying army are badly undermined by squabbles such as this one: one condescending remark can make a far deeper local impression than any number of community initiatives...
...their all-male punching policies. And that decision should soundly confirm an already obvious choice for the CCL and the College--cut the ties. Administrators are worried about the clubs because their sex discrimination might endanger federal funding, but we worry about the clubs because they are exclusive and elitist. To this end, the exclusion of women is simply a logical extension of an already discriminatory selection process. This is why many cannot conceive of a final club with women in it. This is why many, including our-selves, are eager for the College to resolve this straight forward issue...
...secular saint, nor the undercurrent of faith in the expiratory powers of self-sacrificial genius really existed in 1890. The insoluble paradox of museumgoing, which is that famous art gets blotted out by the size of its public, had not become an issue, and it was not thought "elitist" to express regrets about it. Yet one feels it matters more with Van Gogh than with flabby events like last year's Vatican show. For if there was ever an artist whose oeuvre wants to be seen carefully, whose images beg for the solitary and unharried eye to receive their...
Praising the SATs as exams that are not elitist and that help equalize the college admissions process, Rubin says. "It's easier to be prejudiced and discriminatory on the basis of recommendations than among anonymously graded tests...