Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Financially, General Telephone has managed to avoid the drop in per-share earnings that usually comes with the dilution of ownership through rapid expansion. In the first nine months of this year, General Telephone earned $36 million or $2.29 a share of common v. $33.8 million or $2.25 last year...
...everything by insisting that equality of opportunity meant educating all children, bright and dull, in the same comprehensive schools (this, very roughly, is what the Labor Party currently proposes). Clearly, this plan was too American, writes Young: "Americans, far from prizing brainpower, despised it . . . In the continent of the common man, they established common schools which recognized no child superior to another." Another kind of education was necessary for Britain; "Englishmen of the solid centre never believed in equality. They assumed that some men were better than others, and only waited to be told in what respect...
...scientific power elite of cads presided over a proletariat of test-tube-bred sub-morons kept happy on a tranquilizer called soma. The elite could dispose of heretics by sending them to exile in rockets. Huxley lived to see the title of his book, Brave New World, pass into common language as a wry cliche. Now he argues that his nightmare is becoming a waking reality. Looking about today, Utopiarist Huxley is appalled to find how obediently the world has grown to his fictional clippers. Why this is hell, he says with Marlowe's Mephistophilis...
...intelligence tests had been developed that could spot a child's ability and bent at three. Children with IQs of 116 and up were sent to state-supported grammar schools; dullards were taught to read, write and play games at common schools. Uplifting leisure activities were planned for bright students, who "no longer need to spend any of their spare time with their families. Their homes have become simply hotels, to the great benefit of the children." Students, of course, received a "learning wage," were members of the B.U.G.S.A. (British Union of Grammar School Attenders...
Taylor noted that "all the Houses are under constant pressure from student groups who want a place to meet." But our only large meeting place, for instance, is the junior common room, and we like to keep that area free for members of the House...