Word: elitists
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...lumped together into one entity: both are considered colleges to which the best and brightest students aspire. It doesn't really matter which name you use; the effect is the same in Joe Schmo's eyes. Harvard, Yale, Princeton--they're all the same to him. It's those elitist East Coast colleges that supply the nation with an unhealthy dose of its politicians, scientists, CEOs and cultural icons...
...despite the explosive nature of the material, not once has anyone hesitated to express a view, no matter how radical or revolutionary. Our only "discussion" stumbling block reared its head Tuesday, when someone questioned the snobbish futility of a bunch of elitist Harvard students sitting around a table halfway across the globe and attempting to "pretend we know what it's like." To which someone else shot back that America was the "last hegemonic power on earth" and that we "screw with a lot of countries we might as well know who we're screwing with." As usual, no holds...
...thousands of dollars I've won in small friendly wagers over the decades--wagers that are all more than seven years old, in case anyone from the IRS reads this column. No, I wish I were something more noble, like a Reds fan, because the Yankees are an arrogant, elitist organization that I don't want to be associated with. The main thing holding me back is that I'd wind up in conversations with losers from Cincinnati, Ohio...
...Jerusalem, that will fuel the fires of popular disquiet stoked by the opposition Likud party in the hope of toppling Barak's minority government. To be sure, the killings may overshadow a peace pact brokered by Peres, a man widely disdained even in his own party as a dovish elitist. Israel's response to the uprising may have been condemned abroad as excessive; at home the reverse is true. There is mounting concern in the Jewish state that its army appears unable to respond decisively to the challenge posed by the new intifada, and that may weaken Barak's hold...
Additionally, elitist though it may be to say, performing the play in English instead of French automatically robs some of the truest life of Anouilh's words. Sawyer has not done a tremendous amount to reinvigorate the script and turn her production from a fine staged reading into an evocative drama. This Antigone is rich in ideas but never comes around to engaging the senses...