现代英国史

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• It is comparatively classless, with its cheap and uniform chain stores and its new industries - the electronics, synthetic fibres, light engineering and aircraft factories spreading around London and through the Midlands. Slough, a byword for the new, suburban, light industrial and rather monotonous country taking shape, provoked one of Betjeman's angriest poems. 'Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough / it isn't fit for humans now. Those air-conditioned, bright canteens / Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans / Tinned minds, tinned breath...' ... "Too much of it is simply a trumpery imitation ... There is about it a rather depressing monotony. Too much of this life is being stamped on from outside ... this new England is lacking in character, in zest, gusto, flavour, bite... (查看原文)

  Baristina 2015-04-02 02:53:50

• Nye Bevan spoke for the grassroots of the Labour Party, the people who expected a genuine socialist takeover of Britain. He did not believe there could be any compromise between capitalism and 'democracy'. The Commons was 'an elaborate conspiracy to prevent the real clash of opinion which exists outside from finding an appropriate echo within its walls. It is a social shock absorber placed between privilege and the pressure of popular discontent.' (查看原文)

  Baristina 2015-04-02 02:59:04

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