He has always been half in and half out of the establishment, and is amused at times by how at odds his ideas are within the elitist field of limited-edition design.
And even at Wentworth, there are rules: no singlet or vest tops, shirts must have a collar (a throwback to the elitist collar-and-tie days, when golf was only played by the upper classes) and strictly no denim.
Whether a "graduation" ceremony will help is debatable, but what amazes me is the elitist attitude that so many people still seem to have towards further education, as exemplified by the comments here about the quality of qualifications gained.
Mr Klaus is a bumptious free-market populist with nationalist inclinations who scoffed openly at Mr Havel's sermons on civic responsibility and once called him the most elitist person he had ever met.
Johnson is an avid cyclist, but Livingstone has said the current scheme is elitist and plans to extend it south of the River Thames.
Malcolm Turnbull, who was the head of that movement, struggled as leader of the Liberals because he was viewed as an elitist at a time when the Liberals have become a party of battler sensibilities.
Or maybe it's just that, in the end, they really are like her: Imbued with a sense of elitist entitlement and the confidence they know better what is good for the voters than those who actually cast ballots.
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Written by the father of a corporal in the United States Marine Corps, a writer from a Volvo-driving, often elitist stratum of the Massachusetts North Shore, the essay deserves to be read over every table in America this Thanksgiving and carried thereafter in the hearts of every one of our countrymen.
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It was a quality that knocks awry the vicious media image of the Kennedy family as elitist and patrician.
At times, Krewe of America boosters can sound as elitist as the old-timers.
Suddenly women on the left are bashing high-level professional women as elitist, unable to sympathize with the problems of real working women.
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In quarters where "elitist" is the dirtiest word in the English language, Buckley's very existence (the Bach, the ocean sailing) is a provocation.
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That simple truth is one that many Tea Partiers do know, at least implicitly, and that their elitist critics on the left are prone to unscientifically ignore.
The bolder among them argued that the EU had always been an elitist project, with good reason.
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers attacked the proposals as "arrogant and elitist".
Reformists put forth an argument as simple as it was elitist: Take gin away and the poor would fall back into line.
This was a story not because of their Germanic musical tastes, but because it fuelled a perception of top Tories swanning around at an elitist cultural event - well beyond the pockets of the toiling masses.
To the white working man and woman, he has been seen too often as an aloof elitist, who can't drink whisky, displays a suspicious familiarity with the price of an arugula salad and memorably bowled a deplorable 37 in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
That notion was a key factor in the Laura Spence affair, he said - when Oxford was accused by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, of being elitist after Laura, a comprehensive school pupil, failed to get a place to study medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Teaching in the vernacular, education for work, education for changing social and economic conditions, elitist education or mass education, melding traditional and modern knowledge systems are all located within the relevance debate.
Reformists from both camps put forth an argument as simple as it was elitist: Take gin away, and the poor would fall back into line.
And if he can convince his group of elitist richie buddies to chip in to the cause, the total hit to his bankroll would be even less.
For there is something that journalists can do to slow it down: they can at least refuse to be cowed by the accusation that to be professional is to be elitist.
She said college members did "excellent work every year to end the entrenched belief that this university is sexist and elitist, and it is exactly events like this that ruin their work".
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Among them is former Labour cabinet minister Frank Dobson, who has used the idea in his attack on Labour's "elitist policies".
He dubbed it an "ill-founded and elitist Tory-conceived venture" and said the government should order National Lottery organisers Camelot to ballot players to see whether its funding should go to another cause.
It was just prohibition ended in the 1930s, the Gallos worked to change wine's image as an elitist drink.
But many Americans get much more riled about elitist liberals than they do about elitist Republicans particularly if those liberals embrace the teachers' unions while sending their own children to private schools, or go soft on crime while making sure that they live in the safest bits of town.
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