Word: elitist
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What stood out most clearly on Saturday, however, was the contrast between the liberal and egalitarian ideals of the Kennedy family (especially Senator Ted) and the elitist nature of the entire event. Also apparent was the contradiction between Harvard's commitment to promote responsive, democratic government and the University's duplicity in handling the demonstrators...
What's disturbing is not that people like to dress fancy and have a good time--even children enjoy playing house and wearing crowns. It is that the ideologies of these liberal Kennedys, Galbraiths, student politicos and journalists stand in bleak contrast to their elitist lifestyles and pretensions. How will Americans view a lavish black-tie affair to open a school of public service...
...Giamatti will have to initiate cost-cutting measures, which will inevitably alienate certain members of the university. To make matters worse, he will have to face the city of New Haven, which is less than pleased with the presence of the monolithic tax-exempt establishment, considered to be both elitist and stingy...
...boarding schools is, as Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy indicates, an English literary tradition. Good writing by Americans about prep schools-The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss and A Separate Peace by John Knowles-is very serious indeed, perhaps because Americans are less comfortable with the idea of a separate, elitist education for the upper middle class. It is this sober-faced genre that Yates follows, at a distance. The tone of his novel is that of a man looking back wearily from middle age and thinking, "Ah well, it can't have been so very bad. We all survived...
...18th century man, all calibration and catalogue, seems shaded by sinister, unscientific paradoxes. Thomas Jefferson proclaimed a "self-evident" truth that all men are created equal and yet owned slaves and may have kept one as his mistress for years; he was an aristocrat and elitist who was implicated in the most democratic enterprise the world had ever attempted: a sweet violinist of the manor who could write georgic poetry about revolution and blood...