Word: elitist
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...more serious criticism is that she has the wrong answers, that she is an elitist, hostile to all efforts at liberalizing Britain's class-ridden school system. Traditionally, the 8,000,000 children in state schools take a rugged series of tests at the age of 11 and then are divided into the brightest 20%, mostly middle class, who go to academic "grammar schools," and the slower 80%, who are sent to "secondary modern schools." In the 1950s, authorities began slowly merging these two kinds of schools into more egalitarian institutions called "comprehensives," which now make up almost...
Sure the early Dead albums are good, but they're also poorly recorded and ungainly. If you reject their recent stuff purely because it has become popular, you are a sad elitist indeed. Their recent work is tighter, more controlled, and less prone to self-indulgence--in short, more mature. The mixing and recording has been excellent, and Lesh's bass work shows a maturity unrivalled by all but Casady's. The vocals are immeasureably better and we have on record some of Garcia's fantastic pedal steel. Hunter's lyrics today are far superior to his earlier attempts...
...afford to be elitist about anything, we do have one dangerous irony to ourselves: because we are at an institution like Harvard, we are the most able to effect change through power in society, and the most likely because of our background to preserve the status...
...Harvard professor and a writer for a widely circulated national magazine gives him an air of legitimacy that few in a highly stratified society can hope to attain. Whether or not he consciously calculated the political effects, his article can and will be used to justify reactionary, elitist social policy--a policy we find unconscionable and which we oppose. Political circumstances exist beyond say question of motive; they are circumstances for which Professor Herrnstein, like any political actor, is answerable...
...lambasted American society for systematically excluding PIGS (Poles, Italians, Greeks and Slavs) from power. America, he said, has attempted to destroy the culture of the white ethnics. They are dissatisfied and are fighting back. The anger with which Novak wrote bespeaks a cathartic realization on his part that the elitist road to Christ was simply the wrong route. Similarly, Harvey Cox is moving away from a Secular City technocratic theology toward the idea of "people's religion." Radical theologians, Cox says, must look to the people and to popular piety for guidance. Hitchcock is very critical of the influence...