Word: elitist
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...appreciate the temptation for a protest vote. But anyone who can tell me that they're voting for John Anderson as a protest has an elitist attitude. Your colleagues won't be the ones to suffer from a Ronald Reagan presidency," Straub said...
Revulsion, inhibition and the eventual declarations of feminine independence may all have been catalyzed by these early perceptions of the male animal. With the father's death, Virginia and her sister Vanessa establish a London salon, the nucleus of the elitist, eccentric Bloomsbury group. The coolly vitriolic tongues and flamboyant narcissism of the "Bloomsberries" mirrored streaks of casual cruelty and self-absorption in Woolf...
...themselves, then they will achieve. Instead, if children are learning and achieving, then they feel good about themselves." Ravitch believes U.S. education has suffered much from such pedagogic theories, and especially from the notion, which emerged from the social climate of the 1960s, that the pursuit of competency is "elitist and undemocratic...
...that your generous report on Iowa's institute had given credit to the National Endowment for the Humanities, without whose funding the project here, at Beaver College and in the Bay Area would not have been possible. NEH has frequently been subjected to congressional criticism for allegedly being elitist in funding projects. But its support of writing demonstrates that NEH is strongly committed to serving a fundamental need in a democratic society...
...factors exist now: global communications and cultural contact, the diffusion of awareness-altering technologies (including psychadelic drugs) to more people than ever before, the threat of global deep-frying, but these do not guarantee the future will run along Aquarian fantasy lines. Ultimately, Ferguson has to fall back on elitist analysis to make the desired outcome more likely...