Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reagan administration made drastic cuts in the federal education budget, and then-Secretary of Education William J. Bennett hurled attack after attack against selective private colleges, accusing them of being too expensive, elitist and academically unfocused...
...think in terms of images: haiku are the music videos of the printed word). Nor would this be the first time that technology has changed the very way we speak: the invention of typography alone, as Neil Postman writes, "created prose but made poetry into an exotic and elitist form of expression." No less a media figure than Karl Marx once pointed out that the Iliad would not have been composed the way it was after the invention of the printing press...
...reasons we're so good is that we're very elitist about making those [hiring] decisions...
...belief that, because it is impossible to ascertain any universal standard, all points of view are equal (hence none really worth passionate argument, deep analysis or stalwart defense), into the strident assertion that anyone who argues for the superiority of a distinctive moral insight or way of life is elitist or anti-democratic--and therefore immoral. One must not simply accept another's lifestyle, but celebrate it as just as valid as one's own. Or be branded a bigot...
After the fraternity was founded last fall, it came under fire for allegedly being an elitist social club limiting its membership to Jewish students. Although the club's founders were predominantly Jewish, officers said the stereotype was inaccurate, and that the large number of Jewish members was not planned...