Word: elitists
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...cottage on Nantucket right now, watching thirteen13-year-old collar poppers skipping merrily down the pebbled roads. All of this (mostly fake) history makes me wonder whether anyone really knows what collar popping even stands for anymore. After all, collar popping can’t really be that elitist, or that horrifying, if Usher endorses it. What was avant-garde in 1929 is now so quotidien. Even though some collar poppers may still be only preppier FCUK’ers, the elitism that the popped collar once signified is dead. And that makes us non-collar poppers feel so much...
John P. Harrison III ’09, an Atlanta native who says that Harvard is covering 90 percent of his tuition, initially didn’t consider Harvard because of its elitist reputation. “I was under the impression that Harvard was what it was 30 years ago,” he says. After being contacted by HFAI, Harrison reconsidered his position and applied. “Without HFAI, I probably wouldn’t be here...
...There’s always a little bit of that competitive edge,” he says, “At one point Bach-Soc thought of themselves as a very elitist group, and at a certain point, that changed, because they were not elitist by any means. The premiere orchestra was the Harvard-Radcliffe orchestra and that was it. Everybody knew that...
...finalists compete in denouncing Castro. Instead, they talked about crime prevention and garbage collection. Banker Masvidal, a self-made millionaire and veteran of the Bay of Pigs invasion, inherited most of the black vote that had supported Ferre, but other voters may have perceived him as a bit too elitist. "I was viewed as the populist," says Suarez, who happens to be a Harvard-educated lawyer. He scored heavily among Cuban and other Hispanic voters and also took a majority of Anglo ballots. Shouted a supporter at his inauguration: "Un alcalde para to-dos!"--A mayor for everybody. CULTS...
...money on easy-to-digest musical nuggets? Do we declare that they’ve “sold out” because they aren’t “pushing” the “envelope” anymore? Or are such thoughts juvenile and elitist? I feel as though I can only answer these questions effectively by talking about my own struggle with Beck’s recent life decisions...