Word: elitists
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...green and pleasant land, and the Industrial Revolution has brought new wealth to towns like Eliot's fictional Middlemarch. The passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, which enlarged the franchise, has created fear of revolution among reactionaries while holding out the promise of democratizing a corrupt and elitist Parliament...
House resident J. Lincoln Oppenheimer '96 told the audience of about 30 house residents that the T-shirts from the past three years have portrayed an insensitive, elitist image of Eliot House...
...know that Eliot House is not elitist," he said. "We're just poking fun at an old stereotype...
...outs of detecting enemy spies and attempting to recruit them as U.S. agents. He seemed undaunted by the anti-Vietnam War mania and communist sympathy that were rocking his generation; he just wanted to catch commies and turn them. His promotion, however, was somewhat diminished by an elitist attitude within the agency that accorded higher value to those who were hired as case officers than to those who earned that stripe. A former CIA officer who remembers Ames from those days suggests that "maybe there was some resentment" on the young man's part...
Feltman says he likes the change becausenon-ordered choice is ridding houses like Eliotand Mather of their elitist or anti-intellectualattitudes...