Word: crossman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THAT'S THE fate of the iconoclast-you can be used to defend precisely the evils you are attacking, mused the R?. Hon Richard Crossman, Cabinet minister and former Oxford classicist, "It's the bump of irreverence which saves you." So broke off the most subersive sentence ever uttered by a Godkin Lecturer as its author paced around his suite in the Dana Reed House last Wednesday. It indicated the agnostic flavor so prominent in this year's Godkin series, modestly entitled "Bagehot Revisited...
...member of the Cabinet. Crossman delighted in "the considerable chance of changing things" with mass parties. "If we have failed in the last five years to carry out major changes, it is because we [the Cabinet] have failed. The system-especially the Parliament and civil service-gives us every chance to carry out our program...
...Crossman doubted that a mass labor party could survive in this country. "Such a party has two requirements: a homogeneous population and a continuity of leadership in positions of party power. But there is no shadow government here, no place for the leadership if it is out of power...
...Crossman spoke from experience. "After 19 years as a backbencher, I was very discouraged. You go to Parliament only to become a member of the government-and if you're not, that's that...
...Crossman congratulated the democratic electorate for its "bovine stupidity." The party, not the apathetic public, introduces militant ideas-"although it often is just the militancy of yesterday...