Martyrs Of Elitism
Cynthia Rose, Creem, June 1986
ELITISM. DICTIONARIES call it "the sense of being part of a superior or privileged group." On the street, it's more familiar as hipnitude, or novelty. But the fact of it cult status is a definite form of past tense.
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