Word: proletarian
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...folks sunning at Capri. But Guttuso managed to avoid the wooden lifelessness or shrill caricatures of his less talented comrades (see below). The hit of the show was The Dying Hero, an effectively gloomy oil of a man dying on a hospital bed. Although the central figure is realistically proletarian, Guttuso rose above the level of flat political posters with his geometric handling of pillow and sheets, skillfully done in shades of off-white against a violently contrasting red drapery...
...story is a key step in the Communist plan to infiltrate young, innocent minds. What child has not heard this tale of a proletarian who robs from the rich to give to the poor? And what is more unalterably opposed to the American way of life than a communal band sharing their profit together in the woods...
JACK LEVINE was born in the slums of Boston's South End, and raised in a school of art that came to be known as "proletarian." A tightlipped, hatchet-faced youth, Levine painted lividly angry pictures of bloated capitalists and brutal cops. As an honor student of the proletarian school, he rode especially high in his 20s. Drafted in World War II, Levine found on his return that his kind of painting had fallen out of fashion: the postwar generation of painters was going almost wholly abstract...
...days Merlino and Faticati pleaded with the Hungarians; they spoke of their Communist record, their belief in the proletarian ideals of Marx and Togliatti. They gladly wrote the 30-page life histories the police required and pictured their wretched lives in Naples. They asked for a chance in Hungary. The secret police sent them, without trial, to a concentration camp for political unreliables...
...under the respectable but uninspired leadership of Erich Ollenhauer and Carlo Schmid. Today, the 84-year-old Social Democratic Party, Germany's oldest, is fervently anti-Communist and only faintly Marxist, but it still clings as a matter of tradition to Marxist catch phrases like class struggle and proletarian revolution. It thus scares off middle-class voters...