Word: elitist
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...SIDE FROM THE elitist principles that the clubs are founded upon, their everyday practices are equally repugnant. Every year the A.D. club has its 'bimbo party' in which the ratio of women to men is greater than three to one. The A.D.'s ex-president told the Crimson two years ago that "it's not the Harvard-girl type of dance." Other clubs have reportedly used prostitutes at initiations and other events. Still others report hazing ceremonies which are disgusting at best and hazardous at worst...
...HREC, on the other hand, will work "both toward creators and toward the audience," Seltzer says. "We're an anti-elitist club...
Doris Yaffe of Saks, who helped organize the show, dismissed suggestions that it was elitist or directed toward an affluent crowd...
...only person who ever took fashion, which is frivolous and elitist, and gave it credibility," Yaffe said, adding that she never takes part in a show that doesn't benefit a charity...
...were first shown four years ago. Ada Louise Huxtable remarked, "The building is remarkable for the creative virtuosity with which its functions are accommodated while suggesting a monumentality that belies actual dimensions." She added, "This is not easy architecture. And it is not innocent architecture. It is knowledgeable, worldly, elitist and difficult . . . You've got to be as good as Stirling to pull it off." At Harvard, reaction to the new building is ranging from approval to outrage. John Coolidge, professor of architectural history, calls the building "brilliant," at once "striking, convenient and, above all, a sympathetic setting for works...