Fascist Italy abolished May Day, expunging the radical working class traditions it embodied, but it also introduced a labour holiday on 21 April.
Not only does this bring greater independence, wellbeing, cost and resource savings, but it draws on long-standing working class traditions of self and mutual help that let people and communities flourish in tough economic times.
The old upper class traditions of university life had, at least for the time being, faded, and most of the male students were studying for highly truncated degrees.
In parsing themes of class, tradition and duty Ishiguro found a distinct voice.
"Like 19th-century capitalism," Macdonald wrote, "Mass Culture is a dynamic, revolutionary force, breaking down the old barriers of class, tradition, taste, and dissolving all cultural distinctions".
But space on the iconic structure has finally run out, and the University is looking to start a new class tradition next spring.
Because this story line worked so well as a cautionary tale, and because Violette's narrative so neatly embodied the many unresolved tensions — about gender, class, tradition, change — bearing down on French society in the interwar years, it quickly became a national obsession.
David Lodge, chair of the judges, praised the depiction of a between-the-wars country-house butler's self-deception as a "cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance", which succeeds in rendering with "humour and pathos a memorable character and explores the large, vexed theme of class, tradition and duty".
To find an English equivalent to the rivalries of high-school football in Texas, you probably have to go to the Eton/Harrow cricket match; but the one is drenched in class tradition, while the other takes up the Friday nights of entire towns.
She is working with the Pimlico Academy primary school and talks with great passion about the way in which, for her, Hirsch's work fits with a proud working class tradition.
While the city of Chicago is lucky to have at least ten folk dance and music ensembles representing the traditions of Southeastern Europe, most of them focus on single national traditions (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, etc). I have chosen to establish this class tradition with John Kuo, who leads the only ensemble I know which teaches and performs dances from the entire region, including Romani.
