Word: egalitarians
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...addition to being more intellectually egalitarian, Hello Goodbye brings the sound all back home to the sense. The whole great thing about rock, and the Beatles, isn't listening to someone play a guitar: it's hearing the simultaneous and integrated sound pouring out of the amplifiers, virtually giving life...
...Cultural Revolution so severely battered all normal channels of control and command-the party and government bureaucracies, the factories, farms and schools-that only the army remains with enough organizational integrity and discipline to pull the country back from anarchy. The P.L.A.'s commanders and fighters (its egalitarian bent permits no ranks) have practically taken political control of China: nearly all of the country's 26 provinces and regions are run by army men, and they are the only visible authority in five. Soldiers are in the schools, in many state ministries, in the factories and even...
Love of Puttering. Throughout his career, Attlee remained as egalitarian as the Britain he hoped to build. His wife Violet often chauffeured him about in the family Hillman on his political rounds. He wore frayed clothes, smoked a little black pipe and cultivated the Englishman's love of puttering about a garden. The son of a lawyer, he attended Oxford and was a staunch Tory until he visited a London slum. The squalor turned the young lawyer into a social worker and socialist. When the Labor Party split in 1935 over the issue of pacifism, Attlee, a World...
...British Labourite said Wednesday night that European socialist parties should be able to produce a more humane, egalitarian and democratic solution to the problems of the modern world than the American Way of Life...
...they certainly underlie a great deal of our efforts. What is the equivalent in the Chinese scene? Chinese culture is a far different mixture certainly. None of these terms is going to ring the same kind of bell. The Chinese equivalent probably begins with ethical teaching, elitist leadership--not egalitarian--and indoctrination in a community with a great sense of community stressing that rather than individualism, speaking in consensus and expecting a consensus and conformity rather than diverity or individualism, and winding up with authoritarian leadership and a great capacity for mobilization and organization, which we've seen in China...