Word: pauperdom
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...last six words! Proletarian labor, as a subject for art, was the invention of the 19th century; for that, the country-bred Millet was largely responsible. Other paintings of his met similar critical obloquies: The Gleaners, 1857, "have enormous pretensions-they pose like the three fates of pauperdom." The Sower, 1850, was greeted by one conservative as an insult to the dignity of work: "I regret that M. Millet so calumniates the sower," he wrote, disturbed by that faceless and inexplicably menacing colossus striding down the dark hill...
...economic and cultural requirements of American capitalism." During the Depression, virtually an entire nation felt the pangs of penury. Even during good times, as a 1948 Gallup poll, which classified 50% of Americans as "poor or on relief," indicated, plenty of people were poor. Today's self-perpetuating pauperdom cannot be rationalized...
...Year by Germany's rampant anti-Semitic rulers was a more-drastic-than-ever decree forbidding Jews to work for Aryans, to own or work in factories, banks, wholesale houses. For the Third Reich's 500,000 Jews, half on relief, the new decree will mean certain pauperdom...
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