Word: establishmentism
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The Undergraduate Council president in 1998, Beth Stewart '00, was elected on a platform calling for change in campus life, a contrast from the activist council that preceded her reign. She successfully campaigned for cable television in House common rooms. While she was president, the council instituted the Fly-By...
The ad also aims at defusing the appeal of the Republican candidate whose biography stands in sharpest contrast to Bush's. More than half of Senator John McCain's bio ad details his horrific experience as a Vietnam prisoner of war. There are black-and-white photos of the angry...
But as those students demonstrated against the establishment that bred them, Bush increasing felt that "protesting and growing your hair long wasn't a way to do something," Deeter says.
As a result, Bush, who has never attended a single Yale reunion, came to view with contempt much of what he saw as a hypocritical and pretentious left-wing academic establishment.
After he found it one night last week in Goffstown, N.H., a student stood up and accused him of hypocrisy: Why does he take truckloads of money from the communications industry he regulates as chairman of the Commerce Committee? People in the room couldn't hear the question until McCain...