Word: classlessness
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...millions paved the road to Camelot, money is the least interesting thing about him. His craving for power and status seems to have been whetted by resentment. It is the subtext of many American success stories: the smoldering desire to get even for class injuries in an officially classless society...
...poetry, the appreciation of popular culture requires no tutelage or special sensibility, not even close attention. Florenz Ziegfeld and George Lucas create art that is one-size-fits-all. Except perhaps for Roman Catholicism, no other Western cultural genus has been as inclusive as modern pop, so truly classless. Indeed, says Fiedler, Nikes and Garfield T shirts are class camouflage. "One of the functions of pop culture," Fiedler says, "is to make it impossible to spot where a person belongs on the social hierarchy by what he's wearing, what he's drinking, what he's watching...
Ironically, when the cagers finally beat Princeton at Jadwin Gym a year ago to end a 25-year drought there, the Tigers showed their classless stripes and refused to shake hands with the Crimson after the game. Now Harvard has sunk to that level...
...myth of a classless society did not last long. In the three decades before the Civil War, more than threescore guides to manners appeared-written, then as now, mainly by women-and their message was best summed up in one title, The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility. Throughout the century, a dominant class that felt threatened by raucous immigrants and the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution saw etiquette as a means of establishing and maintaining a hierarchy. The up-and-coming aped the manners of the rich, the new rich aped the old, and everyone looked yearningly...
...actually, a classless performance on the part of a department once noted for its friendliness and good humor. It is evidence, as Weber might point out, of the increasing bureaucratization and professionalization of Social Studies. And as one senior who has spend three years in the department it was saddening and deeply disappointing...