Word: elitist
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...that such chronicles should rely on the discoveries of "anthropologists, economists, psychologists, and sociologists." This arguable proposition has increasingly become the conventional wisdom of academia, taught in all the better universities to young armies of new historians, who dismiss most of the traditions of political and cultural history as elitist, impressionistic and irrelevant. History as a narrative study of great men and great events? Obsolete. History as a branch of literature? Absurd...
...deeper than mere political arrangements and is not amenable to reason." Worse, anthropological history explores "such nonrational aspects of society as mating customs and eating habits"; psychoanalytic history dwells "upon the irrational . . . aspects of individual and collective behavior"; mentalite history gives "greater credence to popular beliefs than to the 'elitist' ideas of philosophers...
...LAST WEEK'S Head of the Charles party at Memorial Hall, a Boston College student was heard to remark, "For such an elitist college, Harvard has unproductive, unoriginal bands." Putting aside considerations of Harvard's elitism and what possible connection it could have to productivity and originality, the statement is simply not true, say members of the Harvard band Men of Clay...
...crazed alchemist in its tower and a dragon made of dollar bills (the Spirit of Capitalism -- geddit?) waving its creaking neck from the roof, is quite a creation. But either way, one has the sense of an exaggerated rube's-eye view willfully prolonged. It reminds one that however "elitist" economy and wit may seem, vulgarity soon palls. Grooms' work is not folk sculpture -- it is too self-regarding for that -- but it enacts the illusion of folksiness. One suspects he might not know what to do if he stopped this beaming and lapel grabbing. "It's almost subversive," Grooms...
...tried out for all the a cappella singing groups--Kroks, Dins, hell, even the Pitches," recalls Justice. "And none of them wanted me. I thought their policy was elitist and unfair, and that I could do something about...