| 单词 | establishment-mindedness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasestablishment-ˈmindedness b. Esp. as the Establishment: a social group exercising power generally, or within a given field or institution, by virtue of its traditional superiority, and by the use esp. of tacit understandings and often a common mode of speech, and having as a general interest the maintenance of the status quo. Also attributive. Hence establishment-ˈminded adj., establishment-ˈmindedness. Cf. anti-establishment adj.Quot. 1955 is the locus classicus for this modern sense though occasional earlier uses are recorded. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] optimacy1579 aristocracy1651 great world1699 peerage1725 well-connected1788 governing class1795 patriciate1795 well-connected1831 caste1842 (the) salt of the earth1842 the leisured class(es1848 japonicadom1851 countyocracy1859 masterclass1861 proprietariat1872 four hundred1888 the Establishment1923 gratin1934 power élite1942 U1954 upper1955 topside1958 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > social structure or system > type of structure or system system1806 white supremacy1824 communitarianism1840 familism1859 the Establishment1955 global village1959 megamachine1967 1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot ii. xiv. 117 The moderns of one day become the safe establishments of the next. 1936 H. Pearson Labby x. 260 They spoke the common language, the Esperanto, of the Establishment. 1945 D. Goldring Nineteen Twenties i. viii. 110 It was a head-on collision between two acknowledged leaders of the literary avant-garde and the powerful forces of what Ford Madox Ford used to call the Establishment. 1955 H. Fairlie in Spectator 23 Sept. 380/1 By the ‘Establishment’ I do not mean only the centres of official power—though they are certainly part of it—but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised. 1957 Ld. Altrincham in National & Eng. Rev. Sept. 108/2 He delivered his well-known attack on ‘the Establishment’, a term generally taken to denote those elements in society and politics which are self~satisfied and opposed to all radical change. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 26/3 Sir Maurice Bowra, in his dexterous résumé of what might be called the Establishment view of the ancient Greek world. 1958 Listener 6 Nov. 716/1 In Russia, Mr. Khrushchev has been trying with some success to shake up an ossified Communist Establishment. 1958 C. P. Snow Conscience of Rich xxxiv. 254 ‘That gang’ meant the people who had the real power, the rulers, the establishment. 1959 Encounter Dec. 57/1 The charge of being Establishment-minded. 1959 C. Hollis in H. Thomas Establishment 181 The power of the Establishment..comes..from the fact that there is in all of us a degree of establishment-mindedness—that we feel it right that the opinions of such persons should have attention paid to them. 1962 Listener 8 Feb. 269/1 Always ready for a dig at the musical establishment. 1969 Mind 78 26 Where scepticism is thorough and pervasive it is usually directed against some entrenched intellectual Establishment. 1969 Oz May 19/1 The Establishment is IBM, Xerox, the Kennedys, the London and New York Times, Harvard University, LSE, the Courts. < as lemmas |
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