Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without any question, however, in the '30s at Cambridge, homosexuality and leftish opinions tended to go together. For instance, many of the Apostles, an elitist society at one time dominated by [Economist John Maynard] Keynes, and closely associated with his college, King's, notoriously combined culture, Communism and the love that nowadays all too readily dares to speak its name. Also in residence at King's, and also decisively homosexual, was the famous but, as I think, much overrated novelist E.M. Forster, who provided putative traitors with a serviceable formula for justifying their treachery by insisting that...
...Moines, the library publishes a monthly newsletter that includes tips on renting apartments. In Ohio, the Columbus-Franklin County library has made available a computer bank of statewide job openings. Richmond has a sidewalk kiosk where browsers can check out bestsellers and paperbacks. "I used to be a real elitist," says Librarian Howard Smith. "But we're trying to get people to read at no matter what level." The Dallas public library lends games and dress patterns in low-income neighborhoods. Some libraries even lend gerbils and hamsters, as well as hedge trimmers and posthole diggers-a development that...
...shake the elitist label is to disguise the CCA a little, to change its focus from a good-government "progressive" group to one that simply takes liberal positions on the big issues of the day. In this election, everyone was talking about rent control and condominium conversion; the CCA should have focused on those issues more strongly in its literature. At the very least, old-line CCA members should swallow their pride and return to the "Cambridge Convention" label adopted years ago. Hiding the CCA name probably won't mystify supporters, but it may calm those in other parts...
Trilling believes in the old rules: the manner and social graces that went out with parietals and dress codes. When Harvard men moved to the Quad, students forgot the rules. The word manners became a buzzword for "elitist" and style was for snobs. The result? Loneliness...
...reinforced by the fact that the social sciences are frequently not so intellectually taxing as scientific research. A similar attitude has led to attacks on such training grounds for young scientists as Glashow and Weinberg's alma mater, the Bronx High School of Science, which has been called "elitist" for insisting on tough admissions standards...