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Despite offering widely diverging agendas, the three nominees for the top post all acknowledged a campus wide perception of the council as an ineffectual, even elitist, body with an uneven track record...
Lonelier and less literate. Books will almost certainly become a more elitist and rarefied art form. The common currency of pop culture and public discourse will be the quick-cut, in-your-face style of TV sitcoms and music videos. "The visual image will be familiar, more communicative to people. But at the same time, there will be a general humiliation of language," says Neil Postman, chairman of New York University's communications department. Our connection with the real world may grow ever more tenuous as images increasingly supplant words and symbolic gestures overwhelm rational argument. The portent is ominous...
...wake of this movement, which came to be known as Modernism, an entirely different tendency arose. The Modernists had been elitist, scornful of mass values and tastes. Now their worst nightmares came true. Postwar culture after 1945 began to drown Modernism in a torrent of mass entertainment, facilitated by film, TV, records and a host of allied electronic innovations. At the same time, during the '50s and '60s, a form of institutionalized rebellion took hold among the world's youth as a cultural norm. The old, normal urge to flout authority was greatly magnified and aided by the ubiquity...
...reducing House stereotypes, this system has created a lot of negative thinking. We don't worry about where we want to live anymore. We just think about where we definitely don't want to live. We eliminate Houses from our list because of their stereotypes-- one House is too elitist, one too far away, one too arty. It turns out that House stereotypes--and House negative thinking--are only increased...
...Clinton and Bush might inquire a little deeper into FDR's past. As a young man at Harvard College, Roosevelt was crushed by his rejection from the Porcellian Club. He thought membership in the elitist organization to be his birthright (after all, cousin Theodore had belonged...