Word: elitists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Chiara String Quartet may have performed in some of America’s most prestigious venues, but their attitude towards classical music is anything but elitist. As well as Carnegie Hall, the group has appeared in less traditional spaces such as pubs, clubs, and sandwich bars. The group, who are the current Blodgett Artist-in-Residence at Harvard, will continue this trend by performing in both Paine Hall and the Queen’s Head Pub this week...
...Spee: This old boys’ club just got a little more elitist, adding new old boy Justin Timberlake to the fold. Timberlake’s latest movie, “The Social Network,” is paying the Spee handsomely for using it in the film...
...trying to raise the level of discourse, not in an academic way but in a democratic way,” Waters says. “I hope [the book] doesn’t seem exclusive or elitist because I don’t think it is. But the fact that people can write—if that’s the sin, we’re willing to be condemned...
...League's first Asian-American president with a gangster rap video. For approximately 95 percent of the video, you get to watch Tommy Shanahan and Matt Applegate grin at how attractive they think they are. From the lyrics: "We're dealing with something unheard of in this Ivy elitist institution. No I'm just fooling; he left Harvard behind, so what your rhyme, there is no crying, this is Hanover's time." At the end, the video says in green letters, "Congratulations, President Kim. Welcome home...
...Irvine Anthropology Professor Victoria Bernal spoke passionately to about 125 students in the Social Science quad, saying "the beauty of the University of California is that that it is an elite intellectual institution, but it is not elitist. If there were huge problems with the University of California, that would be one thing. Instead, we are taking something that by all measures is a great success and tearing it down." Student leader Isaac Miller says the university community came together to "protest the de-funding of public education by the State of California and the crisis of priorities...