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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This fact makes the sport seem elitist to many people, Stewart said...

Author: By Tobie E. Whitman, | Title: Sports That Don't Get Enough Attention | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

Vendler also says that the historical restriction of literature to an educated upper class continues to linger to this day, leading to the perception that poetry is an elitist art form. And Engell suggests that the cultural milieu of the past few decades may have been more heavily "saturated with cinema and politics" than with literature of any kind, leaving even less room for poetry...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: Poems, Poets and Poetry at Harvard | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

...they end up sounding weak. One almost gets the sense that, while Gingrich may be a toad, he's right about art. On the contrary, art should be defended vigorously on its own terms. Otherwise, all we hear is that art is not pornography and it is not elitist...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Gingrich Goes After the Arts | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

...tour of all the Square's hottest locales. The highlight? A raging party at the A.D. final club. Adorned in a "royal blue tight sweater, bootleg pants and, of course, boots," as The Crimson described her attire, Chelsea chatted away with some of this country's best and brightest elitist, womanizing snobs. Dad must have been so proud...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: TO THE GOSSIP'S CHAGRIN | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...refused because it was to be used to enshrine the study of business management in a majestic new school destined, as Oxford administrators assert, to become a major center for management research in Europe. The Daily Telegraph, a conservative English newspaper, quickly decried the decision as based on an elitist bias described as "an old British disease that lies behind much of our industrial decline into not-so-genteel poverty...

Author: By Joshua A. Katzin, | Title: Cents and Sensibility | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

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