The touchiness or hypersensitivity of various classes that develops in the course of their social ascent unfortunately results in pompousness, hypocrisy and tyranny. We begin to understand what this may mean when we hear Premier Khrushchev cry out that the younger generation of poets and painters in the Soviet Union “eat the bread of the people” and repay them with “horrible rot and dirty daubs.” This is what comes of the policy that art must serve the political and social aims of any regime or class directly.
