Merit!
Meriteerat!
Meritocracy!
Having left school at the age of 14 I am all for it. Prejudiced perhaps?
John Lentell
November 26th, 1968
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Saturday’s Piece
(By request!):
‘HUGGER-MUGGER’ – confusion; muddle; secrecy. Disorderly – to hush up.
(Collins New English Dictionary)
John Lentell
November 25th, 1968
Friday’s Piece
I love Rhodesia and I hope I shall never be parted from her.
John Lentell
November 24th, 1968
Thursday’s Piece
It doesn’t make sense and there isn’t much hope unless there is much unsaid. In our silence we assent and thereby license their hugger-mugger doings.
John Lentell
November 23rd, 1968
Wednesday’s Piece
“He could raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve ’em in a trice;
As if Divinity had catch’d
The itch, of purpose to be scratch’d.”
(Samuel Butler, 1612 – 1680)
John Lentell
November 22nd, 1968
Tuesday’s Piece
Hugger-mugger persists. It has become part and parcel of our way of life and yet is so very un-Rhodesian.
John Lentell
November 21st, 1968
Hugger-mugger:
Noun – Secrecy; the practice, or policy of keeping secrets.
Adjective – Operating in a way so as to ensure concealment, e.g. as cloak-and-dagger.
Adverb – By stealth; under cover.
Monday’s Piece
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”
(Jeremy Bentham, 1748 – 1832)
John Lentell
November 20th, 1968
Sunday’s Piece
I contemplate the fact that my appetite for fiction grows less and less. Books, films, radio, television, religion, people, politics; I have little stomach these days for fiction or fantasy.
Is it my age and station or the state of the Nation?
John Lentell
November 19th, 1968
Saturday’s Piece
There are an awful lot of people in Rhodesia talking confidence. More people talking it than spending it.
John Lentell
November 18th, 1968
Friday’s Piece
“How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.”
(From Afterthoughts by Logan Persall Smith – 1865 – 1946)
John Lentell
November 17th, 1968
Thursday’s Piece
“When quacks with pills political would dope us,
When politics absorbs the livelong day,
I like to think about that star Canopus,
So far, so far away.”
(From Canopus by Bert Leston Taylor, 1866 – 1921)
John Lentell
November 16th, 1968
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