Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Athenians were simply tired of being prodded toward virtue by a self-styled gadfly. Retired Journalist I.F. Stone, something of a gadfly himself, has a different, iconoclastic answer. In this engaging ramble through Hellenic history and philology, Stone argues persuasively that the beloved Socrates was in reality a coldhearted, elitist, pro-Spartan snob who was openly contemptuous of Athens' vaunted democracy and favored totalitarian rule by a philosopher-king. Bloody political coups led by two of his best-known students, Alcibiades and Critias, overthrew democratic governments in Athens in 411 and 404 B.C. The threat of a third coup...
...good measure, the essay branded Runcie an "elitist liberal" who uses his influence to pack the hierarchy and bureaucracy with cronies and woolly- minded leftists. Increasingly, charged Crockford's, the Church of England is run by theologically vapid leaders who follow "what they think is the wish of the majority of the moment" and whose "moderately Catholic style . . . is not taken to the point of having firm principles." Meanwhile, declared the 16-page piece, few appointments go to biblical conservatives in the Evangelical faction or to liturgical and doctrinal traditionalists in the Anglo-Catholic wing, even though the two groups...
...character of 18 year-old Guy Bennett (Jason Tomarken) is at the center of the drama, which takes place in pre-war Britain. A scion of the upper class, Bennett is obsessed with becoming a member of the elitist "Twenty-Two" Club, which will hopefully open all the right doors for him after graduation...
Again, I appreciate McGanney's article, her thoughtfulness and her careful research. I disagree with her conclusions, and believe her absurd accusations of elitist plotting only weaken her argument. Her extremist views rest less on a consideration of the facts than on her own preference for "experimental" drama and an overzealous fascination with the power of a name. Andrew C. Watson '88 President, HRDC
Turned off by "a star cast system" and "a star techie system," Prascak and two other undergraduates are now forming an "alternative, non-elitist" theater company, Undergraduate Group Histrionics--or UGH. Prascak, Joseph Giani '89, director ofJesus Christ SuperstarandComedy of Errors,and others in the group say they will fill out the group during the next Common Casting, and that UGH will try to provide an outlet for directors and actors who want to work on "off-the-wall things," projects "that don't get put up in the houses." Sounds like what the Ex should...