Word: litist
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...floor dedicated to contemporary and modern works like Juan Gris' Fruit Bowl and Newspaper (1920), pictured. But just one day after the debut, a lack of security guards forced the new galleries to close. Since then, only members have had viewing privileges. "People would accuse us of being élitist and denying ordinary citizens the right to see these works," says Mercedes González de Amezua, the museum's curator. "But every one us of here wanted them open to the public." They got their wish. When another Madrid museum closed this fall for renovations, the Academy borrowed...
...floor dedicated to contemporary and modern works like Juan Gris' Fruit Bowl and Newspaper (1920), pictured. But just one day after the debut, a lack of security guards forced the new galleries to close. Since then, only members have had viewing privileges. "People would accuse us of being élitist and denying ordinary citizens the right to see these works," says Mercedes González de Amezua, the museum's curator. "But every one us of here wanted them open to the public." They got their wish. When another Madrid museum closed this fall for renovations, the Academy borrowed...
...debt, about foreign policy, about economic governance? You've got to talk about this stuff. And you can't talk to party activists like you do to public opinion." Oh no? Royal thinks she can. She promises a bottom-up approach to an electorate disenchanted with France's élitist and sclerotic political culture. She stays away from the abstract nouns beloved of French intellectuals, and makes a very public point of listening instead to voters' concerns, often sent to her heavily-frequented website called, in sturdily nonideological fashion, Desires for the Future. Cavalierly breaching party doctrine, she advocates...
...olive oil. "She reminds me of Julia Child," says Wolfgang Puck, the celebrated Los Angeles chef whose back Ray is rubbing even though they just met an hour ago. "She has a completely different personality, but the message is the same. The message is, she's not élitist. She gives confidence to people to go into their own kitchens." Ray is antisnob and utterly nonaspirational. In a time of war and a struggling economy, this domestic goddess is a down-home Martha Stewart--REAL SIMPLE without the complexity...
...Government Out of Touch Re "A Strange Kind of Revolution" [April 3], author Jacques Marseille's essay on the French protests over the youth labor law: Among the many problems that France has, one is an élitist government. Too few of the ministers during the past 30 years have come up through the ranks from an ordinary background. They form a modern-day monarchical court. The buildings they work in are palatial, the apartments they live in are sumptuous, and the schools they attend to reach such lofty heights are prestigious. Their grasp of the realities of the average...