Word: classlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characterized by wisdom, and after the Third Realm's beginning (set by Joachim for the year 1260), men would soon be so perfect that they would not need any Dux or government or discipline. (Marx's translation: After the triumph of scientific socialism in the classless society, the state would "wither away" because men, purged of the evil of class conflict, would not need...
...could be found playing with an electric train on the floor of the presidential ballroom. Even some of his ideas were a bit disturbing. He hated silver spoons and ivory towers, and for a man who lived so close to Boston, he talked with unseemly eagerness about a future classless society. Education, said he, is "a social process . . . Personally, I like the word 'relevance' ... To my mind, a scholar's activities should have relevance to the immediate future of our civilization...
...certain degree, says Pyles, this was true of Britain. But America, "with its ideologically classless society and its idealistically highfalutin notions of equality, was particularly receptive to such ideas. One of the implications of prescriptive grammar is that anyone may talk and write as well as anyone else provided he follows the prescriptions laid down by the authority. Good usage was no longer the prerogative of a hereditary aristocracy; the grammarians had put it within the reach of every...
...public schools have been traditionally classless and nonsectarian. To Harvard's James Bryant Conant, that is the way they should be. Last week, in an alarmist mood, he called the rise of private and denominational schools a menace to "our democratic unity...
...most was how to find the "right natural leaders" in what he called an "economically flattened" society. "In the old days," he said, "when individual wealth could pass on to one's children, much of the leadership of the country was determined automatically. Just from where, in our classless collection of men & women, leadership will come ... I do not know...