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In a letter to his parents back in Nebraska, Pound explained that studying was hardly fashionable in Cambridge. But he had found an ingenious way to maintain both caste and scholarship. "The Law School men have the reputation of working harder than the College men--and I think they probably...
Though disguised as a civilian program, UMT will serve to keep the military caste in power. The program is to be under the auspices of the Regular Army, and the training given in how not to think is the antithesis of the individuality of the democratic system. For military reasons...
It is only through acquiescence to untold humiliation and indignities, weak surrender of self-respect, and conventional fear of the old bugaboo, public opinion, that thousands upon thousands of servicemen received "honorable" discharges. In the face of hypocritical military caste, pseudo-respect demanded by threat of court-martial, and obedience...
Worse than the dearth of equipment and teachers, said the educators, was the continuance (passively approved by the U.S. Army) of the traditional German educational caste system. After the fourth grade of elementary school, only 10% of German children have the money or social position to get into secondary schools...
"The equivalents of soma and hypnopaedia [the happy-making drugs in Brave New World] and [a] scientific caste system are probably not more than three or four generations away. Nor does the sexual promiscuity of Brave New World seem so very distant. In a few years, no doubt, marriage licenses...