Word: elitist
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...intense spurts. She's deceptively self-deprecating, insisting she doesn't know material she really does because she doesn't fully believe in herself. On the other hand, she does have enough confidence to take advantage of being at Harvard. "This place is special, not because it is elitist, but because you are lucky to have opportunities here. It also keeps you humble, especially when you go back home...
...manufacturing American Chicle factory in Long Island City, N.Y.; the workers who had spent years there making Dentyne and Chiclets were distraught. "It's a beautiful place to work," one feeder-catcher-packer of chewing gum said sadly. "It's just like home." There is a peculiar elitist arrogance in those who discourse on the brutalizations of work simply because they cannot imagine themselves performing the job. Certainly workers often feel abstracted out, reduced sometimes to dreary robotic functions. But almost everyone commands endlessly subtle systems of adaptation; people can make the work their own and even cherish...
...Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, said yesterday. "We're back to the elitist view that the humanities should be supported by the rich...
...think there are other areas in the budget that can and should be cut before financial aid." Julle B. Gutman, director of COPUS, said this week, adding that cutting financial aid "will make Brown more and more of an elitist Institution by making it harder for poor students and minorities to attend Brown...
...home." Adds a parent: "The kids don't have to be told it's time for them to do then-homework." Children, teachers say, are proud of their achievement and feel the school wants them to get a head start. Says Crumley: "There's nothing elitist about this school. But we have expectations for these children...