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One was the military and imperialist middle class , generally nicknamed the
Blimps , and the other the left - wing intelligentsia . These two seemingly hostile
types , symbolic opposites – the half - pay colonel with his bull neck and
diminutive ...
One was the military and imperialist middle class , generally nicknamed the
Blimps , and the other the left - wing intelligentsia . These two seemingly hostile
types , symbolic opposites – the half - pay colonel with his bull neck and
diminutive ...
Page 66
VI One of the most important developments in England during the past twenty
years has been the upward and downward extension of the middle class . It has
happened on such a scale as to make the old classification of society into
capitalists ...
VI One of the most important developments in England during the past twenty
years has been the upward and downward extension of the middle class . It has
happened on such a scale as to make the old classification of society into
capitalists ...
Page 68
A person who has grown up in a council housing estate is likely to be – indeed ,
visibly is – more middle class in outlook than a person who has grown up in a
slum . The effect of all this is a general softening of manners . It is enhanced by
the ...
A person who has grown up in a council housing estate is likely to be – indeed ,
visibly is – more middle class in outlook than a person who has grown up in a
slum . The effect of all this is a general softening of manners . It is enhanced by
the ...
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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius A Penguin book : Polit. science Volume 6327 of Penguin Books Penguin twentieth-century classics |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Editor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Contributor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0140063277, 9780140063271 |
| Length | 123 pages |
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