Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Thinking every man as good as the next, the prewar Australian worker was a passionate believer in class warfare and working-class solidarity. Australia got its first Labor Prime Minister in 1904, 20 years before Britain. Labor unions acquired a major voice in government and a death grip on the economy. The worst sin in the Australian calendar was scabbing, and the prevailing work pace was one that G.I.s came to call "the Australian crawl...
...close world of prison, Hanners found teen-age boys acutely status-conscious. Good marks in Hanners' class meant good standing in jail, and the competitive spirit of a regular high school seemed to be compounded. Complained one boy: "How come he got an E [for Excellent] when you had to speak to him last Tuesday...
...brought him their problems, from abstruse moral ones to a shattered pair of glasses. Jaded prison officials, who had seen hardened criminals come and harder criminals go, marveled at the results. A 20-year-old named Robert, jailed for rape, sat sullenly through his first week in Hanners' class. Inexplicably, he perked up the second week, began drawing cartoons with facility and underwent a drastic change of personality. An incredulous parole officer told Hanners: "I don't see how you did it, but you've made a little gentleman...
...requires little maneuvering space and is generally done in a line, it is peculiarly adapted to bars with jukebox accompaniment. But it is also decorous enough to be performed by teen-agers in the living room, and at least one school has adopted the dance as part of gym-class training...
...survive, ended up for eight months in an Army hospital with his left arm nearly shot off by a German tank. At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, after the war, studying with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Lundy began as the wildman of the class: "Everything came out that had been bottled up during the war," he explains. "I gave it the works. I splashed emotion and color all over it. Well, they gave me a Pass, and I think they thought they were doing me a favor...