Word: classlessness
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...will be allowed enough clothing and basic furniture to carry on a normal life, but you won't be allowed to maintain a standard of living above that of the average worker.'' Before he left, he told me, ''It's the objective of the proletarian revolution to form a classless society, where no one is above anyone else.'' After living in Communist China for 17 years, I knew that such a society was only a dream because those who seized power would invariably become the new ruling class. Even this very junior official in the party hierarchy could make arbitrary...
...bleak Bristol, England, son of a drinking, defeated father and a mother who was placed in a madhouse when he was ten, he was a lonely, latchkey child, who decided on a life in show biz the first time he visited backstage. "A dazzling land of smiling, jostling people ... classless, cheerful and carefree," is how he later described what...
...though the course isn’t offered this semester, sitting in the empty-room was a character building experience. However, because there were no females (or anyone) in attendance, we found no hips wide enough to bear each of us our desired nine to 14 children. Tired and classless, we returned to our thatch huts. And so, a week later, we remain in our rooms, our study cards still blank, the fifty dollar fines accumulating. If anyone knows some good classes to take, please e-mail us. But don’t bother if the courses are in Women...
...language but were reduced to "flipping burgers" because nobody could understand them. "Some just want to sound more British, or don't want to be labeled. They want to blend in." No one, it seems, wants to stand out from the crowd. Despite premature announcements of a classless society, plenty of native English speakers still want to lose or lessen regional accents. Professionals call this "accent smoothing" or "accent softening." Students usually want to go up the social scale, and a certain type of voice may be essential in some fields. One lawyer from the north of England who approached...
...have lost their toxic punch; the royal family, for example, has never been more popular. What about Eton? What lessons is it imparting today, to what kind of boy? Is it manufacturing smug toffs, or are its students being equipped to make an honest living in a more classless, complex world? A visitor to the school is struck by Eton's pungent combination of beauty and history that makes it seem, though it's in the middle of a small town, a world apart. There really are endless green fields, a soaring 15th century chapel, rooms where centuries of schoolboys...