Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest club--The Bee--is all-female. Which really makes no difference to us. The Bee--like the all-male final clubs--is still exclusionary and elitist...
Even if the club queen decided to admit men, The Bee would still be elitist. Admitting people to an organization on the basis of their lineage, prep school, bank account, sports team affiliation or amount of hair spray used is lame and unacceptable...
...realize and what the majority fails to understand is that Harvard can be a pretty boring place on the weekends without the kind of reliable entertainment and comraderide that clubs provide. Put simply, most people join them to have fun. Rather than merely condemning the clubs for being "elitist and exclusionary," the staff should address the reasons for their existence...
There are other areas that can be examined. All satisfactory art can be appreciated at different levels. If we continue to keep out elitist, private forms of information, there's a way that film-making will become blander and blander. I don't want to be a private cineaste who is only seen in clubs and university campuses. However difficult [my films] are, I'm determined to be seen by a larger audience...
Look at the "issues" that have come out so far in the early beginnings of what is sure to be a most tiresome presidential race. President Bush, in a bold and daring move, attacked Congress as "elitist." No way! Not Congress! But is there perhaps another elitist in Washington? Who could it be? Could it be...? No, but Satan is close. Good Lord, George, this is supposed to excite me to vote...