Word: proletarian
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Ever since Springsteen burst on the music scene in the 1970s, his work has focused not on the people who sign the paychecks but on the guys and gals who have to make them stretch for a whole week. If in recent years Springsteen had lost touch with his proletarian passions, he's rediscovered them with "The Ghost of Tom Joad," a new collection of songs about desperate lives along the Mexican border. "This album has the power to haunt," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Springsteen's sound, which is somewhere between his stark 'Nebraska' album and his serenely...
...staff has once again adopted a courageous position on workers' rights, allying itself with the oppressed laborer. Our proletarian-of-the-day is now the Yale graduate student...
Into the void stepped three second- echelon pretenders: Jospin, 57; party leader Henri Emmanuelli, 49; and flamboyant former Culture Minister Jack Lang, 55. Though he was the most popular, Lang bowed out at the last minute, leaving the austere Jospin to fight it out with the more hard-line, proletarian Emmanuelli...
...means another purchase in the larger sell-out of college athletics. For stuffy academics, it means the elevation of a recreational position--football coach--to the status of a tenured professorship. And for Marxist intellectuals, it means a snaky move by prissy, bourgeois capitalist universities to dominate their proletarian counterparts on the grid-iron...
...time the drama was served up cold on the Olympic rink, it had all the ingredients of a classic face-off: Kerrigan, the almost too model American miss vs. Tonya Harding, the grungy underdog whose ex-husband and entourage allegedly tried to knock off Kerrigan to establish their own proletarian ice queen -- and money machine...