Word: classlessness
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...high-color" business friends, to go to the Town Hall with "people of good family, olive-complexioned, with Good Hair." So Sylvia frequents the frame house of her Indian girl friend Naomi, where a gang of fascinating outcasts has created a Guiana version of Greenwich Village, a classless, promiscuous world where True Story and London's New Statesman and Nation share the same rickety table, and illegitimate moppets of varying shades of color crawl among the legs of "dark" Reds, "light" philosophers, and girls whose hair is unspeakably...
...fastidious snake god refuses to eat him because Frut has been touched by human hands. Instead, he tells Frut the way to the Blue Cape, a lizard Utopia where tablelanders and creekers live together in sweet reasonableness. After a harrowing journey across sun-baked flatlands, Frut gets to the classless paradise...
...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...