Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primary reason is the American egalitarian ideology. Several studies in The White Majority show how workers believe in social mobility and tend to blame themselves rather than the system for their lack of status, wealth and power. Even though the hypothesis of such social mobility contradicts the white majority's everyday reality, the old myths die hard. The widespread beliefs that America is an open society where everyone has an equal chance and that failure is because of individual weakness and not system bias greatly impede working-class development and militant action. Thus is the system constantly reinforced. Horatio Alger...
...love and live in security and in harmony. For mankind he wants enough to eat, a clean environment, and safety from nuclear cataclysm. He longs for a worldwide culture based on the principles of his famous didactic novel, Walden Two. Those principles include: communal ownership of land and buildings, egalitarian relationships between men and women, devotion to art, music and literature, liberal rewards for constructive behavior, freedom from jealousy, gossip, and?astonishingly?from the ideal of freedom. Beyond Freedom and Dignity, in fact, is really a nonfiction version of Walden...
Golf has always had its share of distinctive, larger-than-life personalities: Terrible Tommy Bolt, the late Champagne Tony Lema, Daiquiri Doug Sanders. None of them, though, ever had Trevino's mix of fun and finesse?or his earthy, egalitarian appeal. A country-club Cantinflas, he will stick his tongue out at an errant shot, coax in a putt with a burlesque-queen bump or break into an impromptu toreador waltz with an attacking bee. Lee's Fleas delight in his wisecracks (Flea: "Nice shot!" Lee: "What did you expect from the U.S. Open champion?ground balls?"). They love...
What is the attraction? Jobs are plentiful, as usual, and the country is riding the crest of a mining boom in the Northwest. Australia still throbs with zestful materialism. It is an egalitarian land with a relaxed, undemanding lifestyle. The big cities are all on the coasts, and three-quarters of the people live within an hour's drive of a beach. Sydney, built around three harbors, sometimes seems almost water borne. "All my students seem seduced by sport and sun," says a professor at the university in Perth, echoing the tribute of Poet Dorothea Mackellar to Australia...
Competition lies at the core of the problem. From the very beginning American culture has been afflicted with the contradiction between a meritocracy and an egalitarian society. As long as a meritocratic system founded on the exclusively "rational" values remains, and Harvard embodies the epitome of that system, order-obsessed, threatened, and emotionally-crippled men will continue to lead this country. We must begin immediately to redefine our conception of success to include the long neglected subjective values: actions from and with ideas and direct experience, organic growth of interest and competence instead of forced, arbitrary progression (Pass/Fail, General Education...