Word: proletarian
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...grandson of coal miners, Lorent taught a parish school before the war, had a brilliant record in the Front National, in which Catholics and Communists fought the Germans side by side. In his marked northern accent he quotes from Cardinal Newman and Plato, but he also uses proletarian vulgarisms such as "On s'en fout" (an untranslatable idiom which means, roughly, the hell with it), and slang such as "Celui-là, on le descendra" (that fellow's going to get bumped...
Fabiani certainly enjoys the mayoralty, now that the people have given it to him. To approach the office of this proletarian dignitary, you pass through a courtyard with Verrocchio's famous bronze put to, then up the stairs to the great hall with its Vasari frescoes and a Michelangelo statue, thence into an anteroom which used to be Pope Leo's chamber. Nothing so vulgar as a "no smoking" sign could be tolerated here; carefully chiseled stone tablets proclaim: "ll Sind-aco proibisce di fumare in questa sola" (The Mayor forbids smoking in this hall...
This behind-bars art boom was started by 20 young proletarian artists, who call themselves "the Wedge." The group is dedicated to teaching painting to people who otherwise would not know an easel from a weasel. Formed six years ago-when most of its members were still art students-the Wedgies have inspired some 600 proselytes (in & out of jail). Bricklayers, factory workers and carpenters by day, Wedge members invade the prisons at night, with armloads of free paint and canvas. For their work in provincial jails and small villages, the art missionaries dip into the group kitty, which...
...only go so far. [Serious writers] are overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster which has taken place, to a point where it seems the individual voice doesn't matter. So many write small novels of bewildered souls trying to figure their way out. The trouble with proletarian novels is that they're written from the outside looking in. And what Freud has done! Those little case histories. Freud is a great man, but we mustn't swallow him whole and not be able to digest...
...freedom, when the quenchless spirit of the common man was continually refreshed and rededicated to the endless quest of love and friendship, liberty and peace among all the peoples of the world. How many of us even dreamed, as we marched starry-eyed behind the flags . . . towards our proletarian paradise, that we should find it so rigorous and austere...