Word: egalitarian
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...luring undergraduates to elections for spots on Four Faculty standing committees. The position on the committees offered a chance to influence Faculty opinion and policy on issues ranging from advising to athletics. But, though the opportunity to run gained wide publicity, the actual election fell far short of the egalitarian mark...
...personal computer craze may yet, as its eager avatars assert, revolutionize a college education, but it has done nothing to diminish the importance of the egalitarian principles a good education is supposed to stand for. And amidst the hoopla and anticipation over the impending computerization of the Harvard campus, it is precisely the idea of egalitarianism that may most be threatened...
...personal computer craze may yet, as its eager avatars assert, revolutionize a college education, but it has done nothing to diminish the importance of the egalitarian principles a good education is supposed to stand for. And amidst the hoopla and anticipation over the impending computerization of the Harvard campus, it is precisely the idea of egalitarianism that may most be threatened...
...scarf. But in 1913 a mechanic named Henry Ford began turning out Model Ts on his newfangled assembly line. By the mid-'20s Ford was producing a car every ten seconds. Price: as low as $265. Mobility was suddenly within reach of the average family, and an egalitarian society was no longer some impossible ideal. Automobile ownership, reported Robert and Helen Lynd in Middletown, soon became "an accepted essential of normal living." Even in the abyss of the Depression, families clung to their cars as the American emblem of self-respect...
R.A.F. Veteran Derek Robinson, however, provides no propaganda romance. Within a year, the flyers' innocence has crashed in flames. By September 1940, most of Hornet squadron are dead, burned out or mad. Christopher Hart III, an egalitarian American volunteer, tells them, "Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice." They do, and turn from chivalrous adolescents into cynical hawks. After flying hundreds of missions in a month, a dazed pilot hears of Churchill's famous R.A.F. speech: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many...