Symbolic of this for many is the fact that the £2.5m galleries created for the Turner prize – high-spec, museum-quality spaces converted from barracks that will see 8,000 pre-booked schoolchildren and some 100,000 adults come through the doors over the next four months – will revert to the offices of a digital hub after the show has closed.
U.S. companies prize high-walled cubicles for privacy.
The fantastic "Wolf Hall" is ultra-English is so many ways: It re-tells the foundational tale of Cromwell, Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII using a host of fine actors from the U.K., and the books it's based on -- "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" -- won novelist Hilary Mantel the Man Booker Prize, highest U.K. literary laurel.
Each prized high discipline, centred on a cult of leadership, and stressed the idea of authority.
Stephenson is design director of McLaren Automotive, the carmakers behind a range of highly prized, high-priced cars.
The trouble with many of the current "innovations" in education is that they do nothing to challenge a broader policy framework that prizes higher test scores above all else--in fact, they often embrace it.
For "presiding over the Sodom of our age", the Brits win the prize for high cant: "Really there was no language like English for turning lies into legalism".
For example, a UNICEF-sponsored competition in Malawi offered village chiefs a prize for high male attendance at antenatal care, but village chiefs subsequently discouraged health providers from seeing women who arrived to appointments without their husbands in order to win the prize [ 3].
The $50 Texas game, for example, offers thousands of instant prizes ranging from $50 to $50,000, with a few exceptional prizes as high as $5 million.
As book prizes for high literature proliferate, so do their spoofing alter egos, the book prizes for the horrid, the putrid, the no-good, the weirdly offbeat, and the totally unnecessary.
