Word: classe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still of the opinion that a society without caste never was and never will be. Even his own Utopia, where education catapults the men with intellect or talent into positions of power, is possessed of a caste system--with caste resting upon intellect and talent. Even if the ruling class turns over to a certain extent, it is still a ruling class; and there is no real or universal freedom...
This, of course, does not mean that Mr. Conant's world is not a better place than the one we now live in. It undoubtedly is. He is to be warmly applauded for being conscious of the rising class problem in the first place, and then for suggesting such basically sound measures. In so far as a free and classless society is relative--and at one point Mr. Conant says it is--his solution is the best one possible. Be that as it may, the classless society remains an ideal and an illusion...
...from Marx's prophecy that capitalism would go through more & more severe crises, would eventually stall. Parkes shows clearly that the Marxian analysis was correct only up to a point. Marx, for example, harped on only one form of "exploitation," that of the working people by the owning classes; modern experience proves that restricted production (high prices) and frozen capital are chief causes of depression, exploitation of workers, farmers and middle class alike...
...cowy desirableness." William York Tindall, a 36-year-old professor with a razor wit, has read everything that Lawrence wrote, everything (so far as possible) that he read, and everything written about him, simply to trace the path that led Lawrence to this love. The result falls into that class of scholarly production in which acuteness and smugness fight a draw...
...upperclassman who is the Freshman's host must countersign an inter-House eating slip, and the charge will be made to the Freshman's account at the Union. Both host and guest must sign a guest slip, giving the class and college address of each...