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...group sees several advantages in the final club scene. Staying in the Square means less worry about the perils of the night. Quadlings head home in groups and people look out for each other. Although students may criticize the clubs for being exclusively male or elitist, Swanson says that since many of the coeds at the final clubs the crowd frequents are their friends, the women need not be particularly wary...
...they've done it while keeping prices low. "California seems to assume people only want a Mercedes from quality wine," says Santa Laura manager Alejandro Hartwig Jr. "This doesn't have to be an elitist commodity." The question is whether that attitude will change--and spoil the original lure of Chilean wines. "I almost hate to praise them," says Waugh. "I'm afraid it will drive their prices...
...that--women's rights, gay rights, minority rights. With his emollient personal skills, he was able to speak to and for the baby boomers, overcoming the resistance and resentment felt for the whole world of the '60s. Was he too much the child of his times, too relativistic, hedonistic, elitist? Was his wife more a superlawyer and schemer than the domestic icon expected in her role? With a reassuring sense of symbolism, Clinton overcame most of these suspicions. By now the symbols have abruptly swung in ways that confirm all that was felt about him and worse. It was always...
...handpicked nonwhites and middle-class white women. Bond's affirmative action works best for professionals and those in the middle class. He suggests that the black community can be developed without a preference for its most needy element. This is hardly a civil rights remedy, and Bond, an elitist, has never seemed comfortable with any plan to empower the masses of black people. Despite what he believes, white racism is not black America's most important challenge. Black elitism and the lack of self-empowerment are. TONY BROWN, Host Tony Brown's Journal, PBS New York City...
Your cover story "Is Feminism Dead?" was more about pop culture than about feminism [SOCIETY, June 29]. You have marginalized those who care about feminist issues, such as pay equity and the glass ceiling, implying they are an "elitist" group with little connection to mainstream women and their aspirations. You missed analyzing one of the most significant developments of our century, the progress of women into nontraditional roles and their emergence as a major economic and political force. Nor did you address the persistent inequities that remain. Perhaps only when women are better represented in the boardrooms and upper management...