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Still, for an elitist, fronting the best, most-identified-with rock band in the world presents an almost existential problem. In the past, Yorke and his bandmates tried to solve it by radically changing their sound on every album, until the albums got very dark and very weird. But the fans not only refused to be shaken off, they multiplied. So on Radiohead's new album, Hail to the Thief, Yorke finally reached the inevitable conclusion that the only original and obstreperous thing left was to stop trying so hard to be original and obstreperous. "Before we started this album...
...novice chef, Katzen also warns against blindly venturing into restaurant cooking classes. “Be very careful that the class is not elitist and gourmet,” she says. “You don’t want to listen to two hours of wine pairings.” Katzen herself says that, from the vantage point of a prolific cookbook author (she now has over five million books in print), her cooking gets more simplified...
...Students are craving some social outlet at this school. During our last four years here the alternative social clubs—including Greek organizations—have increased in membership while their presence on campus has expanded significantly. This should not give Gross cause for alarm. These new, less elitist organizations challenge the notion that social lives belong to the few and the privileged...
...great because of its unique quirks: its commitment to an accessible and liberal early admissions policy used to be one of them. Changes like this work actively to undermine Harvard’s position as a leader in sensible admissions policy, pitching us back to an outdated and elitist past we would all prefer to forget...
...offended and disgusted at the elitist chauvinism displayed in Friday’s Crimson editorial (Editorial, “Our House, Our Bells,” Dec. 13). It is not our place to belittle and ridicule the value of the bells to the Russian people, nor compare it with our own convenience and monetary expense. Harvard students probably wouldn’t even notice if the bells were replaced with any other set of bulky and painfully mistuned relics. In contrast, residents of Moscow clearly consider the bells to be symbolic of a tradition that was rudely interrupted...