Swanker
Ronald Bryden, 10 December 1987
The Life of Kenneth Tynan
by Kathleen Tynan.
Weidenfeld, 407 pp., £16.95, September 1987,9780297790822 Show More
by Kathleen Tynan.
Weidenfeld, 407 pp., £16.95, September 1987,
“... therefore became, so to speak, theatrical squared. Their situation also made them competitive. As Michael Young was to point out in The Rise of the Meritocracy, élites based on education lack the security of the old aristocracies of land and money. To live by one’s wits is a nervous business: every younger brain, each new foot on the educational ladder, is ... ”