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...also had to sort out for ourselves what the word best means in 2001. Since its founding in 1923, TIME has always tried to balance its commitment to quality with its fascination with popular culture. On one hand, we seek to be authoritative, even elitist, in our critical judgments. On the other hand, we realize that popular taste is often at odds with what we define as excellence...
...Every derogatory comparison you can think of has been invoked to show how political Washington works," Greenfield wrote. "The city and its inhabitants have been compared to a boring, elitist men's club; [to] a recklessly run business....The analogy I favor is to high school...
Today many of these same people, now married with children, are signing up. Though Jack and Jill still carries an elitist image, these people see a need for the group. In search of better jobs, dream homes and superior schools, many black families have taken root in pale places, far from their old neighborhoods and extended families. "When I got into Jack and Jill 18 years ago, most black families lived in the same part of town," says Karen Clark, an Oklahoma City mother. "The majority of our mothers now live in predominantly white communities." Annette Schley, a college administrator...
...many people outside the Harvard campus," says Schorr, “it’s an opportunity to see Harvard as more than an academic or elitist behemoth. They see that goofy parade coming down Mass Avenue and follow it to the picnic. Then they spend the rest of the afternoon taking in all kinds of music, dance, drama and film in some remarkably diverse settings.” Arts First thus has the ability to not only involve campus students and faculty but also to include the Cambridge and Boston community...
...hilariously self-righteous editorial the other day, the New York Times criticized Dennis Tito for having invented the "the most offensively elitist form of eco-tourism yet devised." Sorry, Dennis Tito has invented the most democratic form of ultra-capitalism yet devised. Let people pay what the market will bear to live out their fantasies. We'll all be richer...