Word: elitist
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...argument is that America is experiencing a crisis of values in an unprecedented way. There has always been a questioning of basic values in Western society, but this phenomenon was always restricted to what Lionel Trilling calls the "adversary culture," the avant-garde elite. The friction between the elitist culture and the bourgeois society it lived in produced some of Western culture's very greatest art; but so long as the conflict was restricted to an elite, the social consequences were minimal. But it is only relatively recently that this adversary culture has taken over our popular culture. The mass...
FRANCE. Like their West German cousins, France's young Marxists have decided that they were "too ideological, intellectual and elitist" back in 1968. The French far left-ten main groups, with a total membership of no more than 30,000-is much smaller than the German movement. But it has achieved striking success in mining pockets of discontent that have been neglected by both the Gaullist regime and the establishment left. A variety of Marxist fronts-Trotskyites, Jean-Claude Navatte's Marxist-evangelist Christian Student Youth organization-helped transform hundreds of France's often-bored secondary-school...
...started with Vice President Agnew's eloquent orations in 1970 about those elitist Eastern radical intellectuals who distort the news. Then Clay T. Whitehead, director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the White House, opened up and has yet to quiet down. A recent sample: "Station managers and network officials who fail to act to correct imbalance or consistent bias from the networks--or who acquiesce by silence--can only be considered willing participants, to be held fully accountable by the broadcaster's community at license renewal time...
...find the Crimson's coverage of Ms. Kennedy's speech both outrageous and disgraceful, and we must certainly agree with her that Crimson news reporting leads to the conclusion that the paper is "a racist, sexist, elitist, noble-nigger paper." (A noble-nigger is someone who refuses to back off from a position, even when they're wrong.) Monique Belton '75 Rosalyn Kelson '76 Linda C. Buck '75 Mark Lomax '75 A' Lelia Bundles '74 Cheryl McQueen '74 Denise E. Conley '75 Rita Nethersole '74 June V. Cross '75 Paula Pinkston '74 Avarita L. Hanson '75 Debi Tanner...
...Crimson also came under Kennedy's wide-ranging attack. She cited The Crimson's cutting of a black woman candidate as proof that it is "a racist, sexist, elitist, noble-nigger paper" and said that "it ain't even good...