Word: elitist
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...plan for university reform challenges an elitist system...
...five-year-old GPA Society of Dunster House and the new League of Experienced Women Drinkers (LEWD) are both representative of the kind of behavior which takes place in these unofficial House-based organizations. The self-proclaimed "exist and elitist" GPA Society meets once a month in Dunster's Junior Common Room where an all-male membership of 12--which includes juniors, seniors, and tutors from Dunster--sit at a table, and drink from a keg. Dressed in coats and ties, the men usually listen to a guest speaker who addresses issues vaguely centering on the general "welfare...
John F. Kennedy and K. LeMoyne ("Lem") Billings became best friends in the early 1930s at the Choate School, an elitist institution then run on authoritarian lines. Both boys were rebels. Born underdogs they had been "almost the runts" of their respective litters. Jack was chronically ill; Lem had grown up "scrawny" and "practically blind." Neither boy was a match for his older brother. As Kennedy's nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. puts it, "When Lem and Jack got together, it was almost as if they were thumbing their noses at the world...
...immutable in its ways as the university's famously dreaming spires are in theirs. It would seem from this movie that Evelyn Waugh and all the other novelists who made the world aware of what it was like to be young, gifted and absolutely tops in an elitist society could safely drop in for tea at Oriel or Balliol or any of their formative haunts and feel utterly at home. And this despite the decades of welfarism and general leveling that have wrought so many changes in the rest of British life...
John Pistelli, a student who is seeking to create an alternative student council, criticized the new body as "unrepresentative of the student body and elitist...