Yet wit can sound elitist, and Voltaire cultivated the elite, especially in his youth, when he celebrated wealth, pleasure and the good things of life.
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Off the cricket field, James described him as partial to the "good things of life". St Hill was one of the first successful black batsmen in West Indies. As a batsman, St Hill's performances reached their highest standards on the biggest occasions and against the best bowlers. Although not possessing quick footwork, he was capable of quickly judging where the ball would land.
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However, the underground location need not be taken too seriously. Maurois was writing a political fantasy and parable, not a physical one.(...) The code in not really difficult to unravel. Two countries who are hereditary enemies, with divergent cultures and ways of life—one endlessly, pedantically precise and methodical, the other addicted to gourmet food and the good things of life - who can they be but Germans and French.
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It is a freely composed version of the late medieval Dutch morality play Elckerlijc (in English known as Everyman). The main character, Hecastus, is a wealthy young man enjoying the good things of life. When he learns that he is to die soon, not one of his friends, relatives or servants is willing to accompany him on his final journey. It's considered a masterpiece and it was very successful.
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The origins of this poetry are uncertain. It bears no relation to Latin poetry, nor to folklore. Vernacular compositions seem to have been at first produced for the amusement, or in the case of religious poetry, for the edification, of that part of lay society which had leisure and lands, and reckoned intellectual pastime among the good things of life. In the 11th century, vernacular poetry served mainly the amusement and edification of the upper class.
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Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich and the Duchess of Leuchtenberg His critics talked of Alexei's life as consisting of "fast women and slow ships", referring to his womanizing and the defeat of the Russian navy by the Japanese. This statement is not fully justified, because, despite any drawbacks, his contribution to the modernization of the Russian Navy was outstanding. Away from his desk Alexei devoted his time to the good things of life. He entertained generously and collected fine silver and other works of art to adorn his palace.
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Despite his earlier efforts and interest in socialism, by 1922 Steinmetz concluded that socialism would never work in the United States, because the country lacked a "powerful, centralized government of competent men, remaining continuously in office", and because "only a small percentage of Americans accept this viewpoint today". A member of the original Technical Alliance, which also included Thorstein Veblen and Leland Olds, Steinmetz had great faith in the ability of machines to eliminate human toil and create abundance for all. He put it this way: "Some day we make the good things of life for everybody".
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By the late 19th century, the present emphasis on dining within the Club began to emerge. Long attested that in 1875 "Bullingdon Club [cricket] matches were also of frequent occurrence, and many a good game was played there with visiting clubs. The Bullingdon Club dinners were the occasion of a great display of exuberant spirits, accompanied by a considerable consumption of the good things of life, which often made the drive back to Oxford an experience of exceptional nature". A report of 1876 relates that "cricket there was secondary to the dinners, and the men were chiefly of an expensive class".
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They made it a joyous occasion for themselves as well as their guests. They were hardly an overly wealthy family, and their table was never notable for an oversupply of the good things of life, but whenever they gave a dinner they cast all thoughts of economy to the country winds and worked to the one end that their guests have a pleasant time." "On the night before such an event neither Mamma, Pappa, or Daughter Gale could get those minutes' solid sleep for thought that they might have overlooked some essential in the guests' comfort. At the first crow of the rooster they would come hopping down to the kitchen to get the larder into shape.
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Max Nomad, was influenced by the thought of anarchist Jan Wacław Machajski. Nomad wrote of himself: > "I remain a lone-wolf philosophical anarchist whose sympathies go out to the > poorest of the poor struggling for more and more of the good things of life. > But I feel akin only to those rebellious, but politically unattached > intellectuals who dream of justice and an equal chance for everybody, but > know, as I do, that, given the eternal recurrence of predatory elites, and > the incurable ignorance and gullibility of the masses, a privileged and > educated minority will always rule and exploit the uneducated > majority."Coombs, Anne, Sex and Anarchy: The Life and Death of the Sydney > Push, Penguin Books Australia, 1996; pg. 56.
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The case began when Fiske, a Kansas resident, proclaimed the preamble of the radical labor union the Industrial Workers of the World: > That the working class and the employing class have nothing in common, and > that there can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among > millions of working people and the few who make up the employing class have > all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on > until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the > earth and the machinery of production and abolish the wage system. Instead > of the conservative motto, 'A fair day's wages for a fair day's work,' we > must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, 'Abolition of the > wage system.' By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the > new society within the shell of the old.
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In particular, the IWW was organized because of the belief among many unionists, socialists, anarchists, Marxists, and radicals that the AFL not only had failed to effectively organize the U.S. working class, but it was causing separation rather than unity within groups of workers by organizing according to narrow craft principles. The Wobblies believed that all workers should organize as a class, a philosophy which is still reflected in the Preamble to the current IWW Constitution: > The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can > be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the > working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the > good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until > the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means > of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.
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