And Then There Is That Amusing, Indecorous, Rollicking,...
word "Blimp." Here again, it is not the word itself, but the expansion which has been given to it which may become a danger. People are tempted to transfer this word to any......
Clearing Cut A Book-case Yesterday, I Came Across A Copy
of Emanuel Ben's Mort de la Pensie Bourgeoise, and as I turned the pages my attention was arrested by two passages which I had heavily underlined. The first was as follows: "I......
People And Things
By HAROLD NICOLSON W HEN I was a boy I used to be cursed by my masters for what they called my "inveterate habit of defacing books." I remember that at my private school I would......
We Are Apt, In This Island, To Believe That Nothing
can be dangerous which makes us smile. There is, for instance, that facile and meaningless phrase "The Oxford Accent." Were this expression only used to deride a particular......
It May Be That We Must Now Pay The Penalty
for having for so many generations allowed our educational system to remain stratified in social layers, and that we have only our- selves to blame if the half-educated and the......
There Is That Other Phrase, "high-brow," By Which The...
seek to escape the effort of appreciating difficult things. The defenders of this infantile phrase contend that it applies only to certain forms of pedantry and does not apply......
I Pass To A Third, And From The Social Point
of view even more damaging, slogan, namely "The Old School Tie." I admit that there exists a type of person who has never in after life been able to recapture the sense of......
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