Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that--women's rights, gay rights, minority rights. With his emollient personal skills, he was able to speak to and for the baby boomers, overcoming the resistance and resentment felt for the whole world of the '60s. Was he too much the child of his times, too relativistic, hedonistic, elitist? Was his wife more a superlawyer and schemer than the domestic icon expected in her role? With a reassuring sense of symbolism, Clinton overcame most of these suspicions. By now the symbols have abruptly swung in ways that confirm all that was felt about him and worse. It was always...
...handpicked nonwhites and middle-class white women. Bond's affirmative action works best for professionals and those in the middle class. He suggests that the black community can be developed without a preference for its most needy element. This is hardly a civil rights remedy, and Bond, an elitist, has never seemed comfortable with any plan to empower the masses of black people. Despite what he believes, white racism is not black America's most important challenge. Black elitism and the lack of self-empowerment are. TONY BROWN, Host Tony Brown's Journal, PBS New York City...
Your cover story "Is Feminism Dead?" was more about pop culture than about feminism [SOCIETY, June 29]. You have marginalized those who care about feminist issues, such as pay equity and the glass ceiling, implying they are an "elitist" group with little connection to mainstream women and their aspirations. You missed analyzing one of the most significant developments of our century, the progress of women into nontraditional roles and their emergence as a major economic and political force. Nor did you address the persistent inequities that remain. Perhaps only when women are better represented in the boardrooms and upper management...
...bother? According to Gockley, Houston Grand Opera, which is internationally renowned for its avant-garde productions, had come to be seen by its hometown as elitist. "The political and funding community," he says, "was telling us, 'We know you have a certain stature, but if you don't begin to reach and touch more people, you're going to gradually drop off our priority list.'" So he asked Billington and Foy to create a fully portable stage suitable for special performances aimed at young, TV-oriented viewers unfamiliar with opera. "What does rock 'n' roll do? That was our mandate...
...always thought students at Harvard Law School (HLS) are elitist and selfish; now we know for sure. At their last meeting, members of HLS's Library Committee discussed restricting access to Langdell Library to HLS students only. According to the Law Record, they dismissed the idea--for fear of "retaliatory action from other libraries...