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...comments I made about the closing of the American mind have been proved -- in spades -- not by the negative reviews but by the violence and passion of the reaction. I'm an elitist, I'm a sexist -- you know, all the great political terms. You only had to wait for a few months after the book's success for such "intellectuals" to come...
...Daedalus (extension) Final (extension) Club [correction: Daedalus (extension) is not a Final (extension) Club; see New York Times, Feb. 20, 2005]. OK, so maybe you’re not “cool.” Whatever. Not everyone gets to hang out at the super-sexist-and-(extension) elitist Porcellian (extension) Club. Maybe the (extension) Owl is more to your tastes...
...checked three dictionaries, all of them online,” Limbaugh said. “‘Resignable’ is not in any of them. So this erudite, elitist professor at Harvard used a word that doesn’t exist.” He accused Franklin of filling young minds with “mush...
...Latino poor in the 1970s and 1980s Bronx. Hip-hop built on existing disco, reggae and funk genres and served as a creative outlet for those youth who maintained a zeal for life, despite trickle-down economics that never quite trickled down to the bottom. Contrary to the elitist posturing of many “real hip-hop heads,” the first rap songs were not about the problems of ghetto life, but instead were composed of nonsensical rhyming about fun and love. When the Sugar Hill Gang released “Rapper’s Delight?...
Others believe that the growing conservative voices within the N.A.A.C.P. only reinforce its elitist image. Topics like AIDS, programs for ex-offenders, and reproductive issues for poor black women are often ignored, says Mary Pattillo, professor of sociology and African-American studies at Northwestern University, because "these are issues that can't be portrayed as completely respectable...