A successful businessman, Sir Soy Strong said: “I am elitist because I think the country needs as many of them as it can get if we are to survive the next millenium and not sink into a mire of mediocrity.” He said he “pulled himself up by the bootstraps”to get into a good school and his opinion was: “Whatever one thinks about the public school system, it taught leadership and command.”
比較文化
P49☆12行〜P50☆6行
A Sunday Times writer said that”nowadays, the over-macho male is far more of a joke than the effeminate one”. At a more serious level of changing fashion, many commentators note a strong tendency for women to become more masculine and men more feminine. The number of women managers in Britain rose form 2 percent in 1973 to 18 percent by 1988. Some research on women managers indicates that in order to do well they may have to adopt an aggressive, macho personality.
P60☆3行〜8行
Of course there always was some very good English cooking, known for excellent ingredients, such as pheasants and wild duck and the finest cuts of beef or lamb(usually roasted), trout and salmon fresh from the rivers, fresh vegetables straight from the garden, all of it simply but carefully cooked. But this was the exception, known only to a small minority.
P60☆10行〜P61☆3行
Some people―especially the French―say that the reason for terrible English cooking is because England has been a Protestant country for many centuries, and Protestants are to some extent also Puritans, and Puritans believe that if you enjoy yourself too much God will punish you. France of course is a mostly Catholic country. Be that as it may, until about the nineteen-sixties many Brits were rather scornful of people who obviously enjoyed their food.