"Cornford was killed in Spain just before I went to Balliol; he had become a martyr of mythic power. Coming from a grammar school in Yorkshire, I found the element of romantic savagery in such middle-class young communists distasteful. Their Byronic posturing seemed to spring more from the need to sublimate some purely personal or class neurosis, than from the harsh realities which confronted the rest of us. I particularly resented their affectation of the glottal stop, which they regarded as essential to the proletarian image. 'Ours is a Par'y of a new type', they would say."
Denis Healey, The Time of My Life (1989)