Word: elitist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Discontent over Harvard's anemic social life, both campus-wide and within the houses, has inspired many students to seek alternatives. Some men join one of the nine all-male final clubs. But for most students--all women and those men who do not fit in these sexist and elitist settings--the final club option is foreclosed...
...propriety of Sotheby's practices, Ainslie says, "Our procedures follow every regulation required of us. We proudly market our financial services. There is a suggestion that financing is immoral or wrong. That is an elitist view that we frankly find ridiculous...
Sotheby's feels it is being arraigned for the crime of high success. David Nash, head of its Fine Arts division, told the Washington Post that critics, far from being elitist, have "a hostile proletarian attitude toward our business." (Let 'em eat Braque.) But auction-house pretensions to be self- regulating have collided with the skepticism of Angelo Aponte, New York City commissioner of consumer affairs...
...most immediately repugnant about the COCA memo I received last week was the attitude it conveyed and, more particularly, the scare tactics it employed to conjure up images of another Vietnam War. Yet these scare tactics seemed woefully misguided--after all, Vietnam was a time when thousands of elitist students burned their draft cards and graciously let the poor and minorities do the fighting for them...
...pauses, seems lost in thought, then begins again, determined to make her point. "I just don't think we give enough credit to our public. The Viet Nam memorial was first seen as some sort of elitist statement. It's like you see it before you really see it. But if you don't have preconceived notions, the presence of the object will touch you in some way, and you'll be in dialogue with it. I mean, what do you do with people like Tom Wolfe? His fear of modern art is sad. He must have been flogged with...