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Word: elitists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Because it all works in an elitist direction, I wanted some other aspects to make it more accessible," said Aaron Edison '86-88, a member of the program committee. "So there will be free admission and program notes about the films...

Author: By Matthew L. Schuerman, | Title: Adams to Screen Avant-Garde Films | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

...Respondents repeatedly referred to the 'Smith fit,"' and to the "Smith profile as `elitist', `wasp', and `gleaming white,"' the report stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...staff member, I am more concerned with the elitist attitude and condescending actions of some professors and some staff members and some students toward myself in my employee level. I may hold a service-type job, but I am not a 'servant,'" one respondent wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...Zegart '89, who was selected to attendthe conference, said of the process, "Just becauseit is selective doesn't mean it is elitist...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Committee Selects 20 Finalists Who Are to Visit Luxembourg | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...deeper than mere political arrangements and is not amenable to reason." Worse, anthropological history explores "such nonrational aspects of society as mating customs and eating habits"; psychoanalytic history dwells "upon the irrational . . . aspects of individual and collective behavior"; mentalite history gives "greater credence to popular beliefs than to the 'elitist' ideas of philosophers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Academic Blight THE NEW HISTORY AND THE OLD | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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