Word: elitist
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...weeks next September. Dallas voters had not turned down a municipal-bond issue in 25 years, but after Proposition 13, they rejected six out of 17 such issues on the local ballot. Many of the "no" votes were cast in black and Mexican-American neighborhoods, which helped defeat such "elitist" proposals as a $45 million arts facility, a $14 million pedestrian walkway, and $6.8 million for convention-center improvements...
...called the rejection of his jury's recommendation "typical of the Establishment press." But, as one editor on the Advisory Board told me, "Everybody's mad. They're mad at being overturned. We're mad at their inferior choices. It may sound Eastern and elitist, but they're not alert enough, well informed enough." This is an old complaint: Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post recalls that in 1973 his paper's Watergate reporting was the preliminary jury's third choice...
...students can't turn Harvard down. They don't want to admit that its prestige attracts them, because they're anti-elitist. This leads them to want to turn Harvard into Swarthmore, although they knew what they were getting into...
...other species combined. Thus, by carefully studying not only humans but also the social behavior of other species, be they ants, herring gulls or chimpanzees, we may learn something which is applicable to ourselves. Sociobiology is more of a pure scientific discipline than Emmerich allows for. The elitist politics are injected by him, not DeVore, Wilson, Trivers or any other serious sociobiologist. In fact, sociobiology stresses the cross cultural unity of mankind and of "human nature." Last year Emmerich was burning books, this year he's shooting at lecterns. He has twice demonstrated his distate for sociobiology...
...resources for opposition exist. We support the Freshman Proctors' resolution against the Core and hope that concerned undergraduates will register their disapproval in coming days. Admittedly, the chances of stopping the Core have become quite slim, but for the sake of a better Harvard education and for opposing the elitist process used to formulate the proposal, we urge students to engage in organized protest against the Core Curriculum...