Word: elitist
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...newsletter and decided, hey, this would be a good way to spend time off, as long as I would be doing something other than stuffing envelopes. I grew up in Palo Alto, a fairly wealthy suburb of San Francisco, then I went to Harvard--how 'elitist' can you get? I thought this would give me a chance to deal with real people, to hear their concerns--and it does...
Professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, back at Harvard from his job as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, stretched his long legs down the tavern booth. His two cheeseburgers and draft beer sat untouched in front of him. He was, with characteristic gusto, into his subject. "These goddam elitist liberals," he said, "almost succeeded in running the workingman out of the Democratic Party." He spotted a passing bus through the window and began pumping his finger toward it. "They made that bus driver out there feel illiberal; they turned him into a caricature...
...should can their idea of a social club, different strokes for different folks and all that, but I surely wish they'd cut out the self-delusion that moves them (and male clubbies) to try and get me to believe that their clubs are not, or will not be, elitist or socially exclusive. To quote from your article, it is hard to fathom the import of Dr. Chase Peterson's words. "Too few people are involved in final clubs to feel excluded if they were unable to join." This is a curious brand of Twist-O-Flex logic...
...happy existence here. Everybody develops their own escape hatches from the weirdness at Harvard, whether they are institutionalized or not. Let them have their clubs ... some of my best friends belong to clubs and all that . . . but make them stop trying to tell me that they aren't elitist or socially exclusive. I'm glad that they feel guilty enough to manufacture the whitewashing job but I, as I stand outside their secretive and protective walls, am not buying...
...Women's Club proposal . . . if they feel the need then its peachy to me, but I'd like to suggest that they are fooling no one by defending their club as non-elitist. Except themselves. Hovey Kemp...