Word: shon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tradition of the amateur has other far-reaching effects on Britain's ability to compete in the world today, suggests the Royal Institute of International Affairs' Andrew Shon-field. "Upper-class manners-and it is these manners which set the tone for the whole community in Britain-are unsympathetic to the crudity and explicitness of performance." The result affects everything from the quality of technical education to precise manufacturing standards, and helps explain why the atavistic apprentice system persists, with its "myth of the craftsman and his incommunicable skills." Arthur Koestler agrees that "psychological factors and cultural attitudes...