Word: class
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...grounds of the old Imperial Palace in Peking, rows of plebeian cabbages crowded up to the foundations. In the city not a taxicab could be found because the drivers were out collecting manure. Canton schoolchildren scurried out of class to plant vegetable gardens in vacant lots. To a foreign newsman, Premier Chou En-lai moaned that China this year had been visited by the worst combination of natural disasters in the century. No fewer than 133 million acres (one-half of the arable land) had been blistered by drought, tattered by storms or chomped bare by grasshoppers...
...foremost frontier of socialist construction lies in the villages. If we relax the rapid development of agriculture and isolatedly stress the privileged development of heavy industry, the whole national economy will be hindered." More than 6,000,000 high school and college students have been routed out of class and sent into the country. More than 40,000 "leadership cadres"-toughened, indoctrinated young Communists-have been put into overseers' jobs...
...legend have it-there existed in Manhattan waterfront saloons where savage jack-tars gargled on rotten whisky, and at the same time there were gilded salons where dissipating patricians drank champagne from slippers, most such extremes have disappeared, and the nightclubs of New York today are relentlessly middle class. With some outstanding exceptions, they are also for the birds, including night owls and predatory hawks. And the birds go there...
CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT, by Anthony Powell. The fifth installment of The Music of Time, in which Britain's most delicate and coruscating social Geiger counter moves through the class shambles of the late...
CAPTAIN CAT, by Robert Holles. An English novel, rich with lowest-class slang, in which two rebels at a military-cum-reform school discover that boyish idealism is no match for The System and the venom of original sin in which their regimented mates are steeped...