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Others have tagged him as "the spokesman for elitism in American theater." Brustein doesn't like his "elitist" label, and calls it "a political football and a red herring." The word "elite," he says, is misunderstood in America. People think that "no one is better than anyone else. Well, that's the wrong road to take--a person can have a special talent or gift, and we have to identify that gift and encourage it. I'm interested in quality, excellence, standards." He says he has preserved his ideal over the last 13 years, but has learned how to soften...
Although Rowse has long been a part of the British literary establishment, he has never felt comfortable with it. For one thing, the members operate in the wrong era. "This filthy 20th century," complains the self-made elitist. "I hate its guts." What better place for a man who loathes welfare statism than the century of the other Elizabeth? After decades of living in its atmosphere, Rowse tends to treat the Bard as an intimate. Others may puzzle over the identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Rowse is sure that she is Emilia Bassano Lanier, the half-Venetian...
...students, faculty and staff members rocking out to great music and enjoying student DJs, light shows, a hand-held camera to transport dancing bodies to the Forum's giant TV screen, movies and cartoons, free beer and soft drinks, a bubble machine, and so forth. It certainly wasn't "elitist," although we couldn't invite the whole University to join...
This paradox is always present in any survey of the British university system. Superficially, it seems more elitist and restrictive than the American--but is it, in fact, when the vast majority of those who get to college not only have all their tuition fees paid by the government, but a considerable proportion of their living expenses as well? The introduction of government aid since 1945 has grafted a meritocracy onto a system of tradition designed to make "gentlemen." The student lounging in the Junior Common Room of one of the Oxford colleges (often medieval in origin), taking afternoon...
...every clubbie who calls himself a hedonist rather than an elitist, there are ten other non-clubbies who can't see the high striding tuxedos as anything but an attempt at elitism. Fun or vanity, final clubs have and will continue to constitute an economic and social elite at Harvard...