Word: classlessness
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...where the placement of finger bowls is of some concern, but the more people who can afford-or choose to afford-finger bowls, the less important an issue their exact placement becomes. Though manners themselves are still an issue, they are a different set of manners for an increasingly classless society. Where once it mattered how to present a visiting card, now the question is how a guest in evening dress should handle barbecued chicken. Though contemporary society neither needs nor would accept such an absolute authority as Emily Post, it does welcome some guidelines, and since Mrs. Post died...
Said George Brown: "Hugh Gaitskell got us to recognize that we were a party fighting for a classless society, and if we wish to achieve it, we have to be a classless party ourselves...
...world. Heavyweight Eddie Machen brought unquestioned skill and uncommon pride. A strong, lithe Negro from Redding, Calif. Machen was no classic heavyweight-only 23 of his 41 victories were by knockouts-but he was easily the most talented boxer in a division that was dominated by a bunch of classless pugs. He taunted opponents gleefully ("What's the matter-can't you hit me?"), beat them with eye-catching combination punches. Until 1958 he was undefeated; he ranked as the No. 1 challenger and seemed sure to get a crack at the title held by Floyd Patterson. Then...
...from all classes, nonetheless suffers from its extremists for more or less the same reasons. Mr. Cousins would like nothing better than to lead a general strike, and, if he had the chance, to nationalize practically every major industry. At the moment when Mr. Gaitskell pleas earnestly for a classless society the leftists manage to sharpen and accentuate class differences...
Khrushchev's final promise was that "the present generation of Soviet people will live under Communism." On that day of the true "classless society," according to Marx, the state is supposed to wither away. Khrushchev makes no such promise. "The party holds," he says, "that the dictatorship of the working class [i.e., party] will cease to be necessary before the state withers away." But "to ensure that the state withers away" completely will require "the final settlement of the contradictions between capitalism and Communism in the world arena in favor of Communism." Shrimps will whistle first, comrades...