Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sings about justifying her love, but this songbird's debut album will never make MTV. Lesley Garrett, the English National Opera's untraditional lead soprano, presents a sumptuous assortment of operatic arias on DIVA! A SOPRANO AT THE MOVIES. Her finely colored voice with its firm vibrato is not elitist, and she sings this collection of songs that have made their way into films with a passion and abandon that would make Madonna envious. Garrett's plaintive Voi che sapete, from The Marriage of Figaro, and her flirtatious plotting in Quando m'en vo, from La Boheme, are the answer...
...shirts and caught the ubiquitous references to the school in movies and sit-coms. I was also struck by the virulent rhetoric used by then-presidential candidate George Bush. Bush, furiously trying to dewimpify himself, had a line in his stump speech about "Dukakis' Harvard liberals" and their elitist agenda on the left...
...here, I found that the comp was the best part of Harvard life. The socalled "comp" etition was virtually nonexistent. If you want to join some organization and put in a little bit of time, then you almost always get into them (unless you try for some twisted, elitist, social clubs like the often unfunny Lampoon). You get to bum around doing whatever you like with minimal responsibility. No ruthless cuts. Harsh, extracurricular competition is one of the bigger myths at this place (beating out such whoppers as sex at Widener Library and oppressive political correctness...
...word "McDonald's" is an internationally known symbol of American cuisine, much in the way "Harvard" is a symbol of American education. But go to Harvard Square looking for a franchise of the popular fast food restaurant, and you'll be out of luck, thanks to an elitist conspiracy...
...shaping Kevin's ideas about his responsibilities as a poet. "I guess part of the job is bringing poetry to other people. That's what we do in the Dark Room," he tells me. "I guess part of it is to make it not seem like this strange or elitist or even mystical thing. I mean, I'm just a kid from Kansas...