Word: elitist
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...ones in the middle level courses, end up in small classes, while the presumably more crucial lower level classes often have 20 to 25 students each. This doesn't make sense. The two tracks in Expos are just another example of the pervasive tendency at Harvard to establish arbitrary, elitist distinctions. Instead of introducing students to elitism in their first Harvard class, the Expos program should establish a more democratic policy...
...doesn't sound like they're making an enormous effort to be fair." CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite adopts a more stoical attitude: "This is the meaning of a free press. They're certainly entitled to print any criticism they want." One network executive takes the same elitist stance that angers Buchanan: "No one with an IQ over 70 reads anything in TV Guide except the listings." Which is a cute quip, but not quite accurate; network brass read the magazine with interest, if not affection...
Despite this detached and elitist broadside, Otten is dedicated to the public in a manner that one would like to attribute to all purveyors of news. He stressed that those concerned about a reporter's freedom to secrecy of sources and to immunity from subpoenas fail to see that reporters are agents of the public and that it is the people's right to know that is at stake...
...beginning towards a different image and a different function for the Radcliffe Institute. The feeling among its staff members is that the transition from a small intimate haven for a limited number of women to a place with a broader scope is both positive and realistic. Where an elitist, genteel image once seemed to isolate the Institute from the women's movement, there are now claims that it may be in the vanguard. For the changes at the Institute also involve a redefinition of the goals women must seek: in the face of an economic recession, they...
THIS IS AN ISSUE which Kilson and older blacks have failed to confront. The black elitist has always positioned himself as far away from the remainder of the black community as he possibly could. Acculturation accomodated this lifestyle quite well. Younger blacks have realized that the aloof professional is of no service to the community. Black students' commitments have been reaffirmed as blacks have penetrated racist blockades by collective effort held together by cultural solidarity. The elite that Kilson envisions is an aloof group that does not fit contemporary needs and therefore offers no attraction for students...