Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Broadway, almost by definition, is an elitist place. It's located in a single area in a single city; the tickets are pricey, and the shows often appeal to glitzy, tuxedo-wearing values from a seemingly bygone era. But two of Broadway's biggest recent hits, the rock opera Rent and the tap-dance epic Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, in some respects stand in opposition to all that. Rent is about fighting landlords and hiv; Noise/Funk is about struggling with the Man, racist cab drivers and whitewashed history. Still, despite the populist appeal of these shows...
...black man's brow, I don't think he had ever seen a black man." The only child of an Italian-immigrant father who became a professor of Romance languages at Brooklyn College and of an Italian-American mother who taught public school, Scalia remains determinedly anti-elitist--he dines in a downtown pizza joint and keeps his name listed in the phone book. He can be a forceful advocate for those working-class white males he described in one gender-based case as affirmative action's "losers...unknown, unaffluent, unorganized...
...Tosteson stands out and may well be one of the best deans HMS has ever had," says Kitz, who has worked at HMS for 27 years. "What's marvelous about Dan Tosteson is that he is truly an academic elitist. He's what Harvard is all about...
...current Commencement scheduling discriminates against both the alumni and the parents who have difficulty affording such time off work. Commencement is an inherently expensive proposition, from inflated hotel rates to $35 outdoor clambakes. Why must the University deliberately exacerbate the problem? Is Harvard really such an elitist institution that it has not realized the inconvenience and expense it causes to those it invites for celebration? I would like not to think so, but I--and many years of previous writers to this page--am honestly at a loss otherwise to account for the weekday Commencement schedule. Is the requirement...
...there been much change over the last few decades? The touch-stones of college life--dorm life and professors, Saturday nights and spring break with friends--still have a decidedly elitist twist at Harvard...