Word: egalitarians
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Marxism tried to unite the sociological insights of Conservatism with the egalitarian principle of the Enlightenment, Hartz asserted...
...Barnyard. The Soviet embassy was a true enclave-an island of cruel and clownish Soviet life. The best part of the Petrovs' book describes in detail the life of the higher Soviet bureaucracy: by a paradox, the egalitarian theory of Communism has produced a pathologically heightened sense of status-so that life in the embassy went on by rules something like the pecking hierarchy observed by barnyard fowl. Mrs. Petrov got into hot water for having put a comic picture within eyeshot of Stalin's portrait, and even hotter water when she was falsely accused of having thrown...
...Hudson called the presidential chair a "throne of human skulls." But in modern Uruguay, Latin America's most solicitous welfare state, the office of President no longer exists; its power has been diffused in a nine-man federal council on the Swiss model. Public-school children wear an egalitarian uniform of white smock and blue Windsor tie. The state pensions citizens off at 60. Even the rich get a break: Uruguay, an anomaly among welfare states, manages to get along without a personal income...
...Sales, sent them bustling about the community. When the bishop died, Father Tuck was influential in the choice of his successor, a French priest who knew and understood the Italo-French people of the Riviera. Father Tuck also abolished first, second-and third-class weddings in favor of an egalitarian, one-class ceremony, and he organized the youth of Monaco in a junior Newman Club. Gradually, the spiritual condition of the principality improved. "You have brought le bon Dieu back to us," said a grateful parishioner...
...Uruguay's President. The nephew, protégé and successor of Statesman José Batlle y Ordóñez (who 50 years ago implanted modern democracy in a country battered by civil war), Batlle Berres, 58, is an engaging blend of hotheaded leader and old-shoe egalitarian. As a newspaper publisher, radio-station operator and politico, he seems to speak authentically for his liberty-loving little (pop. 3,000,000) nation...