Prizes not only encouraged writers to aim for the dead level of mediocrity, they acted as an advance guard for the forces of establishment reactionism — wielding money instead of guns: "Someone always foots the bill, of course, and when the outcome doesn't smartly show the feet, they are inclined to squeak," he wrote, "to meddle, or to withdraw their moral and monetary support".
From Marcus Garvey to Michael de Freitas Michaelel X, Bernie Grantntoto Linda Bellos, and more lately Lee Jasper – who was cleared of corruption by five separate investigations – there is a long history of community leaders feeling the force of establishment disapproval.
Indeed it is something of a shame that certain elements of society have only recently woken up to the possibility that the police might not be the faultless, justice-dispensing force of establishment myth, and only because - in the cases of De Menezes and Tomlinson - they have seen it with their own eyes, or at least enough of it to provoke a suspicion that was hitherto absent.
They worry that the corrupt forces of the establishment are perpetually trying to infiltrate the purity of their ranks.
As they approach office, they are forced into sometimes grubby compromises with the forces of the establishment they purport to despise.
In a recent, laudatory newspaper profile of Boris Johnson, the Leave campaign's leading spokesman was described as fighting "the forces of the establishment".
Unless it's someone who can challenge the system to do better, and take on the forces of the establishment who don't want change, they are not doing their job properly.
It glittered distractingly as she declared herself one of "Trump and his Trumpeters" and said, of the forces of the establishment, "They stomp on our neck, and then they tell us, 'Just chill.' " Looking at the reporters in the back of the room, she said, "Heads are spinning!
Mr. Kupfer agreed that the Lennon-Stockhausen meeting was the perfect peg: "a metaphor for this sort of idealistic genre-pushing — sometimes sweet, sometimes loopy — way people thought about the world in the 1960s," he said, "when they believed that the forces of the establishment would be swept away and new, wonderful things would come in their place".
Yet there are reasons to hope that Thailand has the best chance in years to start putting its divisions behind it.To begin with, the scale of Ms Yingluck's triumph makes it very much harder for the forces of the establishment to deny her victory, through legal or extralegal manoeuvres.
One has been focused on examining the driving forces of the establishment of immigrant new ventures and on what enables immigrants to become entrepreneurs and to succeed as entrepreneurs.
