Word: elitist
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...prison guard and a waitress--neither of whom advanced beyond the eighth grade--Rudenstine's background belies the common conception of Harvard as rich and elitist...
...Zanotelli brings the quality of an average student approach to a council that tends to be elitist," Bash says...
...lumped together into one entity: both are considered colleges to which the best and brightest students aspire. It doesn't really matter which name you use; the effect is the same in Joe Schmo's eyes. Harvard, Yale, Princeton--they're all the same to him. It's those elitist East Coast colleges that supply the nation with an unhealthy dose of its politicians, scientists, CEOs and cultural icons...
...People tend to think that the two men are only marginally different from one another. They are members of political parties moving towards the center of the spectrum, elitist organizations fighting over that American--the elusive "undecided voter"--who votes conservatively on financial issues and liberally on social issues, or vice versa...
...despite the explosive nature of the material, not once has anyone hesitated to express a view, no matter how radical or revolutionary. Our only "discussion" stumbling block reared its head Tuesday, when someone questioned the snobbish futility of a bunch of elitist Harvard students sitting around a table halfway across the globe and attempting to "pretend we know what it's like." To which someone else shot back that America was the "last hegemonic power on earth" and that we "screw with a lot of countries we might as well know who we're screwing with." As usual, no holds...