Word: elitists
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...obsessive record keeper who made daily notes on everything from barometric readings to the progress of 29 varieties of vegetables at Monticello--yet he somehow lost track of his debts and died bankrupt. The historian Paul Johnson has catalogued a few of the inconsistencies: Jefferson was an elitist who complained bitterly of elites; a humorless man whose favorite books were Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy; a soft-spoken intellectual sometimes given to violent, inflammatory language ("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants") that in our day gets quoted...
Harvard has taken a pacifistic approach to the clubs, arguing that since they are not affiliated with the campus, it has no jurisdiction over them. But if Harvard wants to get rid of these sexist and elitist organizations once and for all, surely it can lean a little harder. For instance, although Harvard doesn't hold sway over the clubs as off-campus entities, the College certainly does have clout over their main stage--classrooms and campus space...
...evils, but final clubs as we know them will probably go the way of WASP-only country club (if the WASP-only country club has, as I hope, gone that way). While I fully acknowledge a difference in degree between final clubs and other, more extreme branches of the elitist patriarchy, they're still on the same continuum, and the march of history seems to suggest that somehow, at some point, their number will come up. Their members will miss them, which is more than understandable: any exclusive institution is awfully nice for the people on the inside...
...image of a easygoing Al Gore carousing on a stage with Tommy Lee Jones is not one that fits with current media portrayals of the vice president. Many of Gore's Harvard friends, especially Somerby, have publicly castigated the media for portraying Gore as an elitist...
...foreign countries it helps a lot to have get the Harvard name in there; it can help [a cause] a lot," Heymann says. "In America it sometimes hurts, because it sounds and is somewhat elitist...