Even in Ireland, where horsemanship runs in people's veins, that high drama can convey the impression of an insider's industry that operates by its own rules, or an elitist activity that has benefited from years of government patronage.
Although you are likely to see pictures in the media of very famous or very rich car enthusiasts – think Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason or JCB magnate Sir Anthony Bamford – Hatlapa denies that classic-car buying is an elitist activity.
There, of course, have always been museums and always been collectors of paintings, but this was no longer seen as an elitist activity for impoverished aristocrats or fusty old professors.
In the years since I was an undergraduate, I have seen research education go from being an elitist activity catering to a selected few, to one attending to the masses.
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It is also less likely that parental influence can carry the day, given more than a generation of such critical deficiencies in instruction, and a society that increasingly rejects intellectual activity as elitist and "not cool".
As if to acknowledge, with humor, the elitist bias of his activities, Mr. Oldenburg began in the mid-1960s to assemble his own museum in the loft where he lived, initially calling it the Museum of Popular Art, N.Y.C., and later the Mouse Museum.
Rather than an elitist profession, architecture becomes a shared activity and relational practice.
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Once in Cambridge, Drake had become a part of both that whole cerebrally obsessive elitist capriciousness that the likes of Cambridge and Oxford seem fond of cultivating, and the activity on the outer periphery of the town itself.
