Word: elitists
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Lewis goes on to note that the absence of women in the Fly and other final clubs is a relatively minor issue given the clubs' generally elitist nature. In other words, the fact that the clubs discriminate against women doesn't mean a whole lot when you consider that they also discriminate against people for a wide variety of other reasons...
...insofar as people unfamiliar with Harvard may think of the clubs as an important tradition of this University, their actions do present a problem for all of us, lending unfair credence to claims that Harvard itself is an elitist institution. As several members of Women Appealing for Change--the group that boycotted the clubs last year--noted in a letter to The Crimson earlier this week, the Fly vote "is an embarrassment to the student body and the alumni of Harvard-Radcliffe and undermines the values which Harvard is supposed to represent...
...takes full credit for press bashing. She nearly lifts out of the down- filled cushion when she remembers how unfair it was when journalists made her husband out to be an elitist by erroneously reporting that he didn't recognize a supermarket scanner. But she remarks on the novelty of using a juicer and discovering that you can order carryout for dinner...
...seems our venerable elitist University has developed plebeian proclivities over the summer break. Bowing down to the masses of conformity, Harvard has just earned the distinction of being the first Ivy League school to accept the "common application...
...Begala felt as if he were from a different country than some of the senior Clinton officials ... The worst of them, Begala felt, was Leon Panetta, the former congressman from Carmel Valley. Begala felt that of all 435 congressional districts, Panetta's was least representative of America -- the pure, elitist, unreal world of California dreaming. Panetta seemed to love talking about nothing more than deficit reduction ... In private, ((Begala)) began applying a new label to the budget director: 'The Poster Boy for ) Economic Constipation."' -- from Bob Woodward's The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House