Word: elitist
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...difference has caused, observers say, the American image to be capitalistic, imperial and elitist while the Soviets are perceived as "pro-people." Says one high Indian source: "The Soviets have not only established contacts among the urban elite, but they have gone to the smaller towns to form Indo-Soviet friendship societies and socialist study groups. The Indian is impressed that the average Soviet is interested in learning our languages. Their cultural officers stay here for years and years." Says another Indian observer: "The best impact ever made by the Americans was a group of high school students who gave...
...found the dearth of minorities and women among their ranks a source of embarrassment because they viewed their selection procedures as objective and meritocratic. Under the leadership of Stuart Singer, outgoing Review president, the Review has tried to change its image in and around the Law School as an elitist group of white males...
...Abolition of elite institutions. Labor has accepted a radical motion that would abolish Britain's storied private schools and the House of Lords. The radicals consider the House of Lords a prime symbol of the elitist British class system. One left-wing leader proposed a novel idea for its self-destruction: place 1,000 new barons in the House of Lords just so they could vote to abolish...
Johnson said that complaints about the grade cut-off, which some students have called "elitist and snobbish," prompted the change, and added that he hoped making the advanced class open to all students would "remove some of the grade consciousness that has plagued Chem...
...rolls are down from 732 to 349. Wilson Riles, state superintendent of schools and a black, is gloomy about those figures. "If community schools expand very much, the public schools will become schools of paupers. I don't think these schools were meant to be an elitist thing, but it could develop into that." And, in fact, Dave Thomsen has already contacted the local school district, hoping to rent one of the nearly vacated public schools if it closes down. Chuckles School Board President Wein traub: "Now, is that Catch...