Word: classlessness
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...public schools have been traditionally classless and nonsectarian. To Harvard's James Bryant Conant, that is the way they should be. Last week, in an alarmist mood, he called the rise of private and denominational schools a menace to "our democratic unity...
...most was how to find the "right natural leaders" in what he called an "economically flattened" society. "In the old days," he said, "when individual wealth could pass on to one's children, much of the leadership of the country was determined automatically. Just from where, in our classless collection of men & women, leadership will come ... I do not know...
...found out how classless a doctor's daughter could be in a "classless" society when she was refused admission to a university. She was told: "You must be of proletarian origin in order to study here. You belong to the employee category, for which we have no quota." She was finally admitted to classes at the Oil Refinery Institute, worked part-time watching boiler gauges. A month's wages came to 83 rubles at a time when a loaf of bread cost...
...back, called him by his first name and offered him a cigar." To German-born Stern, these homely incidents, multiplied, are the symbols of a social revolution. They testify that, despite the prattle of the Marxists, it is the U.S., not the U.S.S.R., that is creating a classless society...
...with his (Conant's) political attitudes, his scandalous tolerance of fellow-traveling professors, his enthusiasm for raising the already confiscatory rates of the inheritence tax, his desire to put our universities under federal control by grants of federal tax monies, and his repetitions of the Communist slogan of a 'classless society,' will not be astonished at his desire to regiment even those physically handicapped." (From the February 26 issue...