Word: classlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal with the whole American culture. We try to imagine ourselves as a classless society and we definitely don't have a history of talking about this. And I think it's embarrassing to people, maybe less so for working-class [people] in some ways, although maybe not at Harvard," Warren says...
...characters is an elderly writer who grumbles, "Oh, I have a following yet, I grant. There are plenty of old girls and boys who still take me to the hospital for their hysterectomies and prostates. But ... the young don't read me ... Society is intent on becoming classless, and the novel of manners must deal with classes...
...Basically what we're saying is that the bourgeois family is a capitalist institution to carry out oppression of women, gays and minorities," Gardner said. "The liberation of women and all humanity can only come about in a classless society...
However, a Boston Herald description of the crowd attending a 1903 game pitting Boston against Pittsburgh conveys a classless ballpark environment: "The vast throng that looked on as the American champions were forced down to defact was cosmopolitan in the broadest sense of the word. Side by side sat professional men and grocery clerks, ministers and sports, college professors and graduates of he sand lots, all bound together by one great, all-absorbing love for the national game...
Despite their penchant for satire, mostSoviets would deny that there's anything funny atall about communism. After all, the putatively"classless society" in practice means equality ofpoverty. It also means an obscene level of wealthfor the political elite, who enjoy summerdachas on the Crimea and special lanes onthe highways for their sleek Volga limosines whilethe rest of the population is holed away in huge,ghastly impersonal building complexes, one or tworooms to a family...