Word: elitist
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Over the past few years its stolidly trendy Swedish director, Karl Pontus Hulten, has emitted much politic cant about how Le Pompidoglio would not be a museum in the traditional (read "elitist") sense, but rather a kind of cross between a people's palace and a pinball machine-a transcultural, interdisciplinary omnivorium. The real question was how the place might work as a museum. On seeing "Paris-New York," one wishes the question had not been asked. The show is a curatorial botch...
...Line trains that will shoot you down under Mass Ave are the top of Boston's subway fleet. The Red Line has the plushy-cushioned seats, and it has the milk run through the city from the local (elitist) seat of higher learning to the local pseudo-quaint suburban town of Quincy Center. The Red Line is good for long, dark rushes under the streets, but is also boring. Its best feature is on board--the spectrum of people riding between the Square and Boston. But beyond Washington station the passengers get boringly respectable and well-dressed...
...Lampoon, in its ideal form, is not a racist institution, but an objectively absurdist organization of anarchists; unfortunately, it fails at this because it is an organization of anarchists--a contradiction in terms. Therefore, its humor tends to be conservative and elitist. The only way to remedy this situation would be to have the organization itself decide to disband, after which the Lampoon, as such, would no longer exist. This might be for the better, since the phrase "Ha Ha" has always seemed pathetic in print--deprived of its active, spontaneous context. But the Lampoon will exist for as long...
...dreary mudslinging, none of the three major contenders has enticed voters with an attractive image. Labor, headed by the likely winner, Acting Premier Shimon Peres, was hurt by strikes, inflation and recurring scandals. After a brisk start, the new Democratic Movement for Change, led by Yigael Yadin, appears too elitist to many voters. The right-wing opposition Likud, whose ailing leader is onetime anti-British Terrorist Menachem Begin, was accused of maintaining an illegal bank account abroad-the issue that forced Rabin to step down last month. Last week all campaigning was halted as the country mourned for 54 soldiers...
...professional competence--something radicals always need a little more of to be tenured, in order to compensate for their political beliefs. And politics is an integral part of his scientific theories. Lewontin believes the acceptance of many racial and genetic theories by scientists reflects, in part, their own elitist and racial prejudices...