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...lies in the distasteful and seemingly anachronistic region of class antagonism, which has been perhaps the most striking and most paradoxical social conflict of postwar England. Often enough this antagonism is jovially reduced to terms of differences in class mannerisms (as in a Punch series last summer), yet the behaviour of postwar politicians suggests strongly that it is still to be taken quite seriously...
...that student leaders, elected from and by a student body, carry with them many of the views and characteristics of their electors. The NSA delegates are, at the least, aware of the trends of student opinion at their schools. It is these opinions which should and do govern their behaviour...
...believe that a code of conduct between nations is in itself important. In time, the existence of this code does begin to affect public opinion and public opinion in its turn has an influence upon the behaviour of governments...
...value of doorbell inging, for instance, should not be underestimated as an educational experience. The party worker, and particularly the college student, learn more about human relations in a night of trying to force propaganda on potential voters, than they could in any course in political or social behaviour...
Kirke Mechem's Rules for Behaviour (1955), with piano obbligato, bore up well on second hearing. Written in a crisp, clean Irving Fine manner, it took its text from some amusing rules for children found in a 1787 church in Williamsburg, Virginia. The concert, like the telecast, ended with Vaughan Williams' robust and lusty antiphon Let all the World in Every Corner Sing...