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...appear obnoxious to American democratic impulses, for the most part the supposed intellectual quality of the Obama administration elicits praise and not blame. For in America, the aristocracy—at least, as it considers itself—is in fact a meritocracy, since the contemporary arbiters of prestige??the elite universities—are open to anyone with a record of high achievement. Obama, eschewing party hacks and otherwise unenlightened loyalists, has issued in a new era of American meritocracy—where SAT scores and not cronyism will figure most decisively...
...course we continue to be slightly haughty about the quality of our programs,” she later added. “We have really good programs, but you can’t eat over the summer on prestige??that’s the thing...
...Tommie Shelby, who has taught Social Studies 10 during two of the past three years, also acknowledged that students are likely attracted by Social Studies’ reputation: “That’s a Harvard problem. People are competitive and do the thing that brings the most prestige??it goes with the territory...
...customer service representatives, but never after 5pm, when everything closes.’” Though the authors set out to make a perfectly reasonable argument—do not apply for things that you don’t want; do not commit yourself to programs for the prestige??the evidence they furnished to support it illustrates their grounding in the “consumer culture” that Gerson identified, one which discourages self-reflection and encourages entitlement. Consequently, as Wilner observed, they never acknowledged their own role in shaping their time at Oxford...
Bottom Line: Unfortunately for the Nolan brothers, the excessive twists and turns of their “Prestige?? leave the audience more confused than awed. Not quite movie magic...