Word: elitists
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...pair of old jeans up the flagpole. Egalitarian, utilitarian and rugged, jeans project the American sensibility. And as a standard bearer of America's global dominance, they stride where even Coca-Cola fears to tread. But recently jeans have become something else as well. They have become expensive, elitist and European...
That voice can still feel unfocused. Designer Isaac Mizrahi and actress Carrie Fisher have talk shows, which are often funny but at times a little elitist. In a recent episode of Fisher's Conversations from the Edge, she tells Robin Williams, "This is a women's channel, so I'm going to have to ask for some recipes." Other programs include the upbeat talk show Pure Oxygen, the gritty real-life stories on Women and the Badge, reruns of Xena, Warrior Princess and, oddly, Love American Style, the 1970s paean to free love. Laybourne has not wavered in her mission...
There are many problems with Harvard’s final clubs. With their all-male membership and secretive, closed selection processes, they are relics of Harvard’s sexist, elitist past. That they are campus social centers is a sad reflection on Harvard’s nightlife...
...Sketches of My Culture, Cornel West makes a traditionally elitist discourse palatable to the mass public with his radically-democratic prophetic voice. Rather than being praised for his overarching civic concern, West unfairly became the target of insult. The tragic irony is that faculty, students and colleagues hold West with utmost respect for his intellectual stature, compassionate character and brilliant insights. West empowers diverse and marginalized communities that traditionally are not privy to the rhetoric reserved for those within ivory towers. West ends his song with a challenge for professors, among others, to be on the front line...
...always subordinate to family, a message reinforced by the producers’ decision to replace the original opening credits, a series of photographs from Elyse and Steven’s hippie days, with a painted portrait of the family. When Steven interrupts Alex’s prom at an elitist country club to protest the club’s policies, Alex imparts some perspective: “Dad, I’m 17. When I see Kimberly Blanton in a strapless gown, I don’t look past her for the Bill of Rights...