Word: elitist
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...unique, nor is their discussion of it particularly revealing. But their chronology of the spread of the revolt against established authority, and their descriptions of the results of the dispute in their university show the extent to which the whole nation was engulfed in the fight against "elitist tendencies" within the Communist Party. Even the Miltons' children, then in junior high and high school, were caught up in the whirlwind. The Red Guard broke quickly into smaller factions, and every student, it seems, joined one or the other, and spent his time calling the others either ultra-leftists or revisionists...
America's history is not like Italy's, nor does the U.S. have an urban history over 500 years old. But the story does illustrate two broad points. First, that historians trying to fashion a "history from the bottom up" encounter problems elitist historians rarely encounter: the elites of the past could afford the time, money and energy to carefully preserve their lives and times from their perspective; the members of the lower classes had none of these advantages and historians concerned about them are waging a long and difficult struggle to set the facts of history aright. Moreover...
More recently, Harvard's own John T. Dunlop along with others has proffered an elitist theory of labor organization development. Again, briefly and simplistically, Dunlop in Industrialism and Industrial Man (1960) outlined a theory of industrialism controlled by management elites--labor movements were explained as conditioned responses to the nation's developing economy. It seems obvious, in retrospect, that Dunlop, Ford's former labor secretary, would develop a theory useful to management and unacceptable to historians...
...were given carte blanche to ask questions. "I had forgotten how carefully scrubbed and polite cadets are," said Tompkins, an Army staff sergeant in the South Pacific in W.W. II. Concluded Flamini: "Some may find it hard to accept West Point's honor code as anything more than elitist mumbo jumbo -but there is something to the place." That "something" and the scandal's scope are the story: edited by Ronald Kriss, an ex-Army specialist third class; written by James Atwater, ex-Korean War lieutenant; and researched by Anne Hopkins, granddaughter of Admiral William S. Sims (Annapolis...
...controversy are the so-called "Reds," who espouse Chairman Mao Tse-tung's idea of continual revolution and selfless commitment to "serve the people," John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday. Mao believes the revolution is betrayed by bureaucrats who obtain privileges and turn elitist, Fairbank added...