Word: elitist
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...traditional ethnic neighborhood politician, Vellucci has slowly shifted toward the CCA on most substantive issues, voting against condo conversion and for rent control. And on the CCA's part, Sullivan may be doing more than any of his colleagues to expand the organization beyond its Brattle St. roots and elitist reputation. His last campaign was a coalition triumph--he won with votes from tenant activists, CCA regulars and elderly voters pried from a lifelong habit of voting for Independents by their fear of condominium conversion. "The initials CCA strike fear into too many hearts in this city to make...
...devoted followers, but it is limited, consisting largely of white-collar workers and well-educated suburbanites who worry about whales, pollution and consumerism. He will be heavily tempted to turn to left-liberal groups who supply eager donors and doorbell ringers, but that could stamp his campaign with an elitist label that could be fatal. Anderson knows he must broaden his appeal to blacks, blue-collar workers, white ethnic groups, but is only now mulling over how to do so. His national unity theme, seeking to win votes from Democrats, Republicans and independents, has landed him in a chicken...
Still, Hook is at his keenest at war with ideas or with historians. Arnold Toynbee's pious but inexact theories, T.S. Eliot's elitist culture of the future, Alger Hiss's claim of innocence - these are the stuff of enduring debate, and even when his case is exaggerated, Hook never fails to stimulate or enlighten. He is less successful when he praises. John Dewey's writings are described in dust-jacket prose: "chock-full of fruitful insights" and at times he can sound like Kahlil Gibran: "Democracy is like love in this: It cannot be brought...
...eldest sister, Esther Crampton (Maureen O'Sullivan), lives down the road with David (Gary Merrill), her elitist curmudgeon of a husband, who openly reviles her siblings and their menfolk as "morons." Naturally, each sister cuts through the Gordian knot of close relations only to find it intact - even if more loosely binding. However, Homer amusingly severs his umbilical cord...
Vincennes was a stepchild of the university reforms that followed the French student rebellion of 1968. Its original purpose was to help break the French university system of its traditional and often rigid emphasis on formal, elitist-oriented training. Accordingly the new school offered such courses as History of Cinema, Sexology, and Third World Economics and Politics, shocking to conservative French educators. Most revolutionary of all, Vincennes, alone among French universities, dispensed with the usual entrance requirement, the dread "bac" (baccalauréat degree), more or less the equivalent of two years of U.S. college. By admitting non-bacs...