Word: lumpenization
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...basic problem, he said. was a conflict of class interests: while the white radicals are "an economically secure interest," the Panthers "represent the lumpen proletariat-the economically insecure. You can't have an alliance with a group with different class interests...
...special enforcers, Castro used his "Committees for the Defense of the Revolution," numbering more than 2,000,000 members. Railing against "parasites, speculators, lumpen and laggards," C.D.R. members closed down private shops and decided which should be reopened under government ownership. To whip up national interest, the Ministry of Commerce issued daily bulletins on the number of businesses "intervened," and newspapers and radio stations played up the wonders found in the possession of Cuba's last capitalists. In Matanzas province, Mechanic Domingo Riosa had the misfortune, for example, to be caught with light bulbs, Champion spark plugs and pistons...
Artsies & Aggies. With such varied aims and standards, Cornell has a natural pecking order. On top is the arts college, which takes in students from the university's other schools for a year or so of broadening. In turn, "artsies" regard "aggies" as intellectual Lumpen, and nearly everyone sneers at hotel students. Nonetheless, artsies use and respect courses in all the other schools. Agriculture's biology, for example, is usually more stimulating than its arts equivalent. Cornell's best psychology course is child development in the College of Home Economics. And if football is any guide, Cornell...
Compared to the lumpen, grimy men who emerged in a state of shock from the blood-soaked trenches of the Western front, Thomas Edward Lawrence was an irresistible figure, cut to the bias of every romantic schoolboy's fantasy. His apotheosis was not long in coming. It occurred one night in September 1919, when an audience studded with Cabinet members and ambassadors jammed London's Covent Garden to hear Lowell Thomas lecture on Lawrence, the Uncrowned King of Arabia. It was a rousing occasion; the Welsh Guards played background music, and an Irish tenor rendered the Moslem call...
...cinematic best a shaggy lumpen proletarian helplessly meshed in the woof of modern life, Cinemillionaire Charlie Chaplin off the set could apparently out-guile even a Boston textile tycoon. According to a suit filed last week in Manhattan by a widow of a onetime business pal, Charlie was wont to have his royalties deposited at Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co., then transferred to a Swiss banker, who funneled the funds to a dummy corporation set up by Chaplin in currency-careless Tangier. Result: two years after Chaplin settled in Switzerland-and while the U.S. Government was vainly trying...