Word: elitists
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...warm and Gerlinde’s idea really seems excellent. Soon I have missed the 10 a.m. train. But Richard Wagner is a little closer now. I have found those for whom he is not an elitist pleasure, but just a very regular, if exciting, part of life. As Sonja clucks about a new recording she just bought, and Max asks her to play it for us, I bask in my new understanding of this town...
...service. His detractors tell the story of an effete snob who "looks French" and can't possibly understand the concerns of average Americans. An ad by the conservative group Citizens United mocked Kerry for his $75 haircuts and million-dollar yacht and closed on this note: "Another rich, liberal elitist from Massachusetts who claims he's a 'man of the people' ... Priceless...
...those of the same socioeconomic or social class in college. Many of them arrive in the Yard already knowing a bevy of new undergraduates from school, summers in the Hamptons and ubiquitous New York social connections. To students from other parts of the country, this creates an intimidating and elitist image...
...paradigm on this subject equates crowds with mindless mobs (the bigger the mob, the dumber and more dangerous)--think of lemmings or the Gadarene swine that Jesus sent off the cliff. The old paradigm, no doubt elitist and authoritarian, cherishes the brilliant individual (Leonardo da Vinci or Isaac Newton, who reinvented the universe while hiding from the plague in a country house...
Claims that expansion of the undergraduate body might diminish the school’s reputation by raising the acceptance level and increasing the number of students who could tout the Harvard name is both elitist and absurd. There are plenty of similarly respectable universities with much larger undergraduate populations than the 7,400 that would be created by adding 1,000 undergraduates—Harvard turns down thousands of well-qualified students a year—and acceptance rates would likely maintain their present level as increased visibility of international students on campus would encourage greater numbers to apply. Summers...