Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exemption until they include everyone. We adovcate a broadening of the grounds for conscientious objection, the extension of alternate service, and the exemption of young workers in apprenticeship programs, as means of diminishing available draft material and expanding the base of the anti-draft movement. We must recognize elitist procedures, however, in the selection of Peace Corps and Vista trainees, and exclusionary practices in apprenticeship recruitment as we recognize class discrimination involved in the 2-S deferment. Real alternative service should include "community people," working in their own neighborhoods, without being able to read French or kiss asses...
...Dunster men are silently worked out in the daily grind of preparing for law school. Dunster has become just a place to live--and is never anyone's first choice. Everyone' decides Dunster is too far from classes, has rooms that are too small, and has nothing of the elitist or material allure of other Houses. But the people who come to live in Dunster find that most of their premonitions about it were very wrong...
Wilcox attributed part of the decline in acceptances to what he called "the end of the elitist period." "There isn't any particular glamour attached to starting as a sophomore, and that takes pressure off people who might accept because it is the "thing to do,'" he added...
Like other Latin American intellectuals, Jaguaribe criticizes the United States for exploiting his country's resources and supporting military-elitist coalitions. He speaks with a peculiar mixture of hostility and admiration of "our North American neighbor." "People now ask," he says, "which will live longer: General Motors or Brazil? The armies you aid are only fit for the oppression of their own people, the occupation of their own nation. By supporting these dictators, you are guarding stability and preventing communism, but you are also suppressing the popular will. The loans of the United States can sustain the present government...
...Britain, Ashby said, universities operate on Gresham's Law--that bad money drives out good money, or that university education for the masses drives down the quality of the academic degree. This English "elitist" philosophy was transferred to African universities when they were established in the 1950's, Ashby said, and the effects of elitism are still felt...