Word: proletarian
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...intensely interesting to see. The voices of the animals, all spoken by Maurice Denham, are wonderfully satisfying. And Matyas Seiber's rousing anthem, Beasts of England-in which Imitator Denham sings a dozen voices at once, a roaring chorus of many sound tracks blended into one-is a proletarian hymn ("Something," as Orwell imagined, "between Clementine and La Cucuracha") that can make the most conservative heart go pitapat...
...devoted a separate article to the little fellow. He was the Nizam of Hyderabad's favorite movie star. Jan Christian Smuts, Avila Camacho, Mackenzie King declared in his favor. Franklin D. Roosevelt never missed a Mickey cartoon. Mussolini adored him; Hitler hated him. The Russians called him a proletarian symbol; however, the line changed in time, and Mickey is now a "warmonger...
...attacks. "Lots of venal people dislike their work," said Britain's Soviet Specialist Edward Crankshaw. "Vishinsky was venal but happy." In the strange and somber matrix of murder, assassination, conspiracy and intrigue that has been Soviet official life in the last 30 years, Vishinsky, a man of non-proletarian origin and a onetime dissenter, not only survived, but built a brilliant career for himself...
...Little by little, in careful ways, they correct you so that you may lead a more worthy proletarian life. You learn to dress shabbily in drab colors, like the others, and to put your children to work. If you do not, your taxes are raised. You learn to be enthusiastic. If you are not, they will whisper from mouth to mouth in your village that you want to be rich, that you are a reactionary. They will threaten you with public discussion. They will isolate you: you will find that your neighbors will not dare speak to you. If this...
Levine himeself was once the lastest thing. With Ben Shahn, he dominated the "Proletarian" school of painting fashionable in the laste 1930s. Slum-born (in South Boston) a youthful hater of cops and capitalists, Levine rightly thought himself "equipped to punish." He used his genious for caricature and opulent colors like a jolting left hook to attack what he considered the evils of society. Now a hatchet-faced 39, Levine has simmered down some. "Don't call me angry," he says, with a thin smile. More important, Levine has steadily improved both as a painter and as an ovserver...