Word: classlessness
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...stagecraft seem misguided, it still is very worthwhile in its attempt to put into action Brecht's conception of non-"theatrical" or "epic" drama. The most distinguished element of this production is the well-conceived blocking which gives movement and flow to this esoteric piece of propaganda for the "classless" society...
...bubble quietly in 1951 when the Communists imported an Italian named Pacifico Montanari to reform the republic's schools. Montanari, 36, is an ardent apostle of Celestin Freinet, a freewheeling French innovator who claims non-Freinet schools teach by the medieval notion of rigid authority, argues for a classless classroom, with the teacher as merely a "master companion" who discusses with the pupils what and how they should study. Montanari installed the Freinet method in all of San Marino's elementary schools except one: Mother Veronica's St. Clare's Convent...
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...