Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writes one commentator in the weekly Moscow News, Yeltsin has displayed "three souls": those of a populist, a democratic reformer and an elitist from the old nomenklatura of the Communist Party bureaucracy. The democratic reformer became the first popularly elected leader in Russian history in June; and the populist shortly after stood on a tank to defy the coup; but lately the elitist has been in evidence. Yeltsin has appointed namestniki -- in effect, governors -- to administer regions and localities in his name, under powers ceded him by the Russian parliament last August...
...very profound influence on my discovering the richness of life. I've said that at the age of 17 1/2, I discovered the letter h in the English language, which, you know, isn't much known among the English working class. Now that's not to be elitist about it, but that was a reality...
Nearly a quarter-century of well-intentioned reforms have demonstrated the law of unintended consequences. Until 1968, party leaders controlled the process, spicing up their back-room bargaining with a handful of hotly contested presidential primaries. This elitist tradition has been replaced in both parties by the shallowest form of mass democracy: a gauntlet of party primaries (36 states in 1988) that give an almost unbeatable edge to the candidate who can raise the most money. Rather than bring presidential contenders closer to the voters, the current system virtually walls the candidates off behind a TV barrier of sound bites...
Final clubs are racist and elitist, to boot. If you liked the Harvard admissions office, you'll love a group of clubs that takes discrimination against Asian-Americans and favoritism for athletes and legacies to a new level. Final clubs are the last bastion of the old Harvard, a Harvard where men, where money talked loud and status even louder, where the unwashed masses were kept in their proper place and women were toys for young bachelors to play with...
Ethnic material increasingly is taught to children of all races; conventional history increasingly is not. In education-minded Brookline, Mass., where 79% of high school graduates go on to college, parents have had to fight to restore a European-history course that was canceled as Eurocentric and elitist. Meanwhile, students have been enticed into fringe electives with such sales pitches as "Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a voodoo doctor...