Word: lumpenproletariat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deaths in Tiananmen Square, the mainland has undergone unprecedented economic growth that has lifted millions out of poverty. Yet, amid China's still-incomplete transition from command to market economy, many among the class of workers the country's nominally Marxist-Leninist leaders are supposed to protect?the Lumpenproletariat?are experiencing the very capitalist dystopia Marx envisioned. "There's more economic development than ever before, but workers' rights are overlooked," says Li Qiang, director of the New York City-based rights-monitoring group China Labor Watch. "You can take the name Communist Party and cut it up. This is maximum...
Read TIME TV critic Jim Poniewozick on one of television's indelible icons: "As O'Connor played him, Archie Bunker was perpetually and evocatively tired: tired from his job, tired from dealing with the new world of strangers that moved into his Queens neighborhood... He put the lump in lumpenproletariat... He was a Reagan Democrat years before anyone knew they existed... Archie was an Astoria King Lear." www.time.com/oconnor...
...docks, tired from dealing with the new world of strangers (blacks, Jews, Catholics) who moved into his Queens neighborhood in a period of urban flux, tired of the shocks to his system as a lifetime of immutable values changed around him minute by minute. He put the "lump" in "lumpenproletariat." "All in the Family," the boundary-shattering comedy about what folks used to call "the generation gap," would have been a classic regardless, because of the passion of producer Norman Lear's ideas and the strength of his writing. But the show would not have had the resonance...
...wrong. I know that honest work is honest work. My father is a farmworker and my mother a housewife and seamstress, and so I have had the experience of being a member of the Lumpenproletariat (which somehow seemed appropriate, since Karl Marx's birthday always falls on Cinco de Mayo). However, Harvard is supposed to be a pass to bigger and better things, and I hadn't expected to end up shoveling popcorn into Value Size cardboard containers. Soon enough that enterprising Harvard spirit set in: I set my sights on being employee of the month. I was sure that...
...director, designer, conductor and soprano to complement her original cast. Baritone Franz Grundheber's tormented Wozzeck, soprano Kathryn Harries' ripe Marie, Graham Clark's strutting Captain and Norman Bailey's Mengelesque Doctor, all under the commanding baton of Richard Buckley, brought Berg's acerbic, atonal ode to the lumpenproletariat to vivid, expressionistic life...