Word: classlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Case predicted that President Eisenhower would be re-elected. The people, he said, have a deep trust in him, based upon his support of America's three guiding principles: a classless society, the necessity and desirability of progress, and a religious tradition...
Manhattan's Daily Worker, tripping lately over a weaving party line, tripped last week over the Communists' longtime claim that Russia is a classless society. "In the leading and biggest socialist country, the U.S.S.R.," said the Worker, "classes have been completely abolished." Next day, under the headline CORRECTION, the Worker set everybody straight: "The sentence should have read '. . . exploiting classes have been completely abolished...
...daughter of Lord Kilmuir: "We all come from what we thought were U families, but ... we all say 'mantlepiece' and have sugar in our coffee. Does this mean that we must change our classification?" On the contrary, said Sir Robert Boothby. In order to achieve a really classless society, "we must all become U as quickly as possible." But can the non-U speaker ever become U? For the answer to that, Britain had to turn back to the man who had started the whole controversy. "The question," Philologist Ross had said, "is one noticeably of paramount importance...
Adam B. Ulam, associate professor of Government, and Martin E. Malia, assistant professor of History, both said that the speech made no fundamental change in Marxian doctrine. Both mentioned that Marx, late in life, envisaged peaceful means of achieving the classless society. Malia emphasized that this was merely another attempt at neutralizing Western Europe and disrupting the NATO alliance. Ulam noted that the new doctrine implied no willingness to make genuine concessions to the West...
Last week Kansas scored a near miss in almost becoming the 19th. Its legislature passed a "right to work" bill, but Republican Governor Fred Hall vetoed it. Noting the efforts of some lobbyists and legislators to pit farmers against the bill, he said: "America is essentially a classless country. Those who would put one group of people against another to make it otherwise, are doing their country a great disservice." The state house of representatives voted 78-44 to override, but that was six short of the two-thirds needed...