Word: proletarian
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...London, six months after it was seen in Manhattan, Salt of the Earth (TIME, March 29) opened to rave reviews in the anti-U.S. and left-wing press. A militantly proletarian film about striking Mexican-American zinc miners in New Mexico (sponsored by the Red-run International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers), Salt even won the measured approval of the staid Times: "American films as a whole proclaim that . . . the American way of life [comes] as near to perfection as is possible . . . There is much value in a minority report . . . Powerful, though perhaps prejudiced, is the case...
Going Absolutely Gorky. In 1926, Jed rushed straight from the dock to the organization meeting of a new proletarian stage enterprise, reminiscent of the famous Group Theater. "Human society is suffering and drying up for lack of a creed," he soon found himself saying. "The theater will take the place of the church . . . That's what I learned working with the Russians last summer. We've got to go further than they went. Abolish the proscenium arch...
What kind of American becomes a Communist or a fellow traveler? Persistently, both right and left tend to answer the question by referring to a type that logically emerges from the writings of Marx; the pro-Communist is expected to be a poverty-driven, culturally disinherited proletarian rebel. But increasingly the U.S. is aware of another type-not poverty-stricken, not rebellious by temperament, not disinherited by external economic forces but created by a subtle psychological rejection of the values upon which Western civilization has been built. In short, an idealist gone wrong...
Since the coming of the commissars, Hungarian women, who used to be among Europe's most chic, have turned pale and proletarian. Reason: the commissars banned cosmetics. One result: a black market in smuggled lipsticks and rouge...
...year from the Grand Central Art Galleries, offered the works of only two painters-Social Realist Ben Shahn and Abstract-Expressionist Willem De Kooning. A two-man affair by deliberate museum decision, it made for a forceful though far from representative showing. Shahn, whose art had its roots in proletarian fury and has now become fashionable, topped the list of lesser prizewinners with an $800 award. Many exhibitors, notably those of the Iron Curtain countries, seemed stifled by their messages. Shahn, on the contrary, is lost without one. Shahn's earliest work on exhibition was a wonderfully gentle idealization...