Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people do not want to attend school or college, an egalitarian society ought to accept this as a legitimate decision and give these people subsidized job training, subsidized housing, or perhaps simply a lower tax rate...
Jencks argues that since equal educational opportunity does not lead to equal economic achievement, society, if it values egalitarian treatment of its members, must act to reduce the effects of luck, social contacts, etc. And this, Jencks says, is best done in a socialist state...
Chess has equally noteworthy positive assets, which are not always realized. It is virtually the only game that is just as stimulating when played without money stakes as with them. It is truly egalitarian in that social status or wealth or brawn can confer no advantage. Neither can a high IQ. In fact, a New Jersey psychiatrist-chess player, Dr. Henry A. Davidson, has applied the theory of the idiot savant to chess and concludes that it would be possible for a blockhead to excel in the game, but adds tersely: "He usually doesn...
...unabashed egalitarian," as he puts it, Manley grew up in an atmosphere of politics and art (his English-born mother is a sculptor). After service in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II, he studied at the London School of Economics, then went to work for the BBC. His heroes: "Dad, Martin Luther King and Harold Laski." Manley returned to the island in 1952, became a labor negotiator, and did not run for Parliament until 1967. Though Manley today is "looking outward" to Third World nations (including Cuba), he still has his mind set on launching Jamaica firmly...
...Meiji Japan where the nonelite majority of the community could also participate in the political process. In comparison with the basically Confucian doctrine which limited the reins of power to the Emperor and the scholar elite, Chang says that Liang's doctrine of popular participation in government was "essentially egalitarian...