Word: elitist
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...thought their Renaissance was an upwelling of disciplined classicism--Rome reborn from the ashes of "barbarous" Gothic--so the Kyoto Renaissance strove to recall the spirit of the Japanese past, as far back as the Heian era (794-1185), especially in the domain of writing. It produced an intensely elitist, nobly disciplined and masculine culture whose emblems were the ink brush, the samurai sword and the tea bowl...
Indeed, Canellos adds, appointing Clinton might benefit Harvard by dispelling some of its elitist image...
Though that awe-inspiring list of universities reeks of snobbery, the crowd was anything but elitist: People of all races, classes and social groups joined together and, like Shakespeare's "band of brothers," went through the same ordeal. First came the endless waiting in a single-file line: By the time we were allowed into the Marriott's conference room, the sun had set and the temperature dipped, and more than five students left the line in impatience...
...this an elitist attitude? Absolutely. The United States is a democratic republic, not a pure democracy, and our system of government was designed to blend popular passion and elite wisdom --not to rubber stamp the whims of the ignorant and the apathetic. Americans are a remarkably free people, and part of that freedom is the right to tune out the noise from the public square. But those who choose political ignorance should not, through the good offices of 21st century electoral puritanism, be encouraged to cast votes on matters they know nothing about...
...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush--scion of old Wasps, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" over lethal injections--as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...