At the heart of the Snow/Leavis ‘two cultures’ clash
- When Charles Percy Snow rose to deliver the Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge in 1959, he had good reason to be satisfied with himself.
- By sensible tenacity he had reached an upper station of English society, an unlikely terminus for one raised by a lower-middle-class family from a suburb of Leicester.
- He had grown up surrounded by artisans and labourers, a distant but kindly father, three beloved brothers, and a smothering mother.
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- When Charles Percy Snow rose to deliver the Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge in 1959, he had good reason to be satisfied with himself.
- By sensible tenacity he had reached an upper station of English society, an unlikely terminus for one raised by a lower-middle-class family from a suburb of Leicester.
- He had grown up surrounded by artisans and labourers, a distant but kindly father, three beloved brothers, and a smothering mother.
Sources: Aeon