Word: classing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real crisis, Oakeshott holds, is somewhat different. "In the past, a rising class was aware of something valuable enjoyed by others which it wished to share; but this is not so today. The leaders of the rising class are consumed with a contempt for everything which does not spring from their own desires, they are convinced in advance that they have nothing to learn and everything to teach, and consequently their aim is loot-to appropriate to themselves the organization, the shell of the institution, and convert it to their own purposes. The problem of the universities today...
Take One False Step (Universal-International) features William Powell climbing in & out of a highly unlikely scrape. As a distinguished educator in search of a university endowment, Powell appears hardly bright enough to run a class in finger-painting. Though happily married, he accepts a date with a blonde barfly
...result (at a cost of under $500,000) is not only a first-class social document, but also a profoundly moving film. Dr. Carter (Mel Ferrer) and his wife (Beatrice Pearson) are forced into passing as whites so that he can practice his profession. But he keeps clandestine contact with his Negro colleagues, names his son (Richard Hylton) after a famous Negro doctor. Out of these contacts emerge some fresh insight into Negro viewpoints, and into the intricate network of etiquette and anguish separating those who can "pass" from those who cannot...
...regards the U.S. as destined to be a "great big promiscuous grave into which tumble, and there disintegrate, all that was formerly race, class, or nationhood." Many Americans share with Eliot his fear of the standardizing power of technology and mass education; Lewis relishes the prospect of "one intellectual and emotional standard" which he hopes will soon make "the inhabitant of Mexico City . . . indistinguishable from the dweller in Montreal...
...Charley Gray," prototype of the millions of decent, middle-class U.S. citizens who burn themselves out in the race to pass the Blakesleys and creep up on the Burtons, is the central figure in the new novel...