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...felt that the real world was very much outside and that Harvard was this artificial, elitist place," Slavin says...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: Yard Watches Students Seize University Hall | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

America is influenced by people other than those you perceive from your elitist, myopic perch. America is not just black and white anymore; it is also brown. Your failure to name even one Hispanic is unacceptable. JOSE CLAUDIO SALAZAR Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 12, 1997 | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

This fact makes the sport seem elitist to many people, Stewart said...

Author: By Tobie E. Whitman, | Title: Sports That Don't Get Enough Attention | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

Vendler also says that the historical restriction of literature to an educated upper class continues to linger to this day, leading to the perception that poetry is an elitist art form. And Engell suggests that the cultural milieu of the past few decades may have been more heavily "saturated with cinema and politics" than with literature of any kind, leaving even less room for poetry...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: Poems, Poets and Poetry at Harvard | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

...they end up sounding weak. One almost gets the sense that, while Gingrich may be a toad, he's right about art. On the contrary, art should be defended vigorously on its own terms. Otherwise, all we hear is that art is not pornography and it is not elitist...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Gingrich Goes After the Arts | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

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