Word: classless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REHEARSAL. Neither the 18th century costumes they wear for a play within this Anouilh play nor their witty words can hide the motives of aristocrats intent on destroying a pure-and classless-love...
...question that Britons will answer at the polls is whether the Earl who has forsworn his titles will in fact not seem less of an anachronism than Harold Wilson, who brags that he is "classless" but harps on class consciousness. Home may well seem to many Britons a symbol of the bad old days, when privilege meant power without responsibility. On the other hand, Labor's new order would create its own privileged class, one that has had little or no experience of power and would owe its primary responsibility to the state...
Both men, it is shrewdly noted by Sevan's biographer, British M.P. Michael Foot, were romantics. Churchill's romanticism was invested in the manifest glories of the English past and Sevan's in the evangelical dream of a new Jerusalem in a classless England of the future. But the boy who was born in Blenheim Palace and the boy born in a collier's cottage were well matched when history brought them face to face in the House of Commons. They were the greatest parliamentarians of the century...
...people who once were kings." But Otto had little sympathy with the leveling influences of socialism. "We have arrived at a bureaucracy of welfare and insurance against everything, which may well turn reason into nonsense," he wrote. "There is a danger of a new caste arising out of a classless societ-those in power...
...intent of the classless community is not homogeneity, but individuality, and a Sarah Lawrence education is ideally focussed on the specific student. Each girl selects her Oxford-like advisor or "don", who has sole authority to counsel her, and criticize her program. Students take three courses a year, and of the 12 courses throughout the four years, all but two follow the unique format devised 30 years ago by Constance Warren, the school's first president...