Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the men behind Topic are John Powell, a British construction and real estate magnate who is given credit as the magazine's founder, a fur importer, a paper manufacturer, three kin of the Guinness clan (stout and beer), and Maurice Macmillan, 40-year-old son of Britain's Prime Minister. Its editor is Morley Richards, 54, a craggy and capable journalist with 28 years' experience on Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,313,063), 14 of them as news editor...
...address to the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs, Beer maintained that the Social Democracy of the Socialist Labour party is quite different from the Tory Democracy of the Conservatives...
...structure of both parties is based upon a policy of class in society. But, Beer emphasized, there is a radical difference between the type of class distinction that each one makes. It is the philosophy behind this divergence that explains the different appeals and policies of the two parties...
Thus, the Labour party has identified itself with the working class, Beer stated. Therefore, the platform of the party originates in its Conference, a meeting of the local party representatives. The initiative of the party comes from its constituents...
However, the Conservatives believe in a theory of authority, Beer noted. Due the inevitable inequality in the natural abilities of men and the subsequent differences in their education, certain people should rule and the others should defer to their judgment. "And there are plenty of deferential followers left in England today, or else politics there woudn't be what they are today," he insisted...