Word: proletarian
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Under strict party discipline, faculty members were occasionally given proletarian tasks to perform "to prevent excessive pride." E.g., they had to paste surreptitiously on subway windows and pillars stickers with slogans such as Defend the Soviet Union and All Out May Day. Comrades had to get permission to travel, do scholarly research, study for higher degrees. The comrades mortally feared detection; one even wore gloves when he edited a campus Communist sheet, to avoid leaving fingerprints...
...deserter from the Nazis is Hermann Rauschning, former East Prussian officer and Junker, former President of the Danzig Senate, former member of Hitler's inner circle. He described the proletarian nature of the Nazi revolution in The Revolution of Nihilism, later revealed Hitler's sinister secret conversations with his inner circle in The Voice of Destruction...
...looking with almost unseemly eagerness for a noble savage. Rousseau had written that as civilization progresses, morals decline. Advanced Britons had reached the point where they were looking almost anywhere outside themselves for an ideal. Their quest turned up answers perfectly familiar today-from the psychiatric to the proletarian. Before Omai's advent there had been inspected, briefly accepted, abruptly rejected...
...essay on "Chauning's Causes for the Fall of the Confederacy". Three others were presented with checks for $25 by Mr. Malone: Arthur Devaney, of Saginaw, Mich.. for an essay on "Emerson: the Summum Bonum and the Style": J. C. Rulley, of Washington, D.C., who wrote on "Proletarian Literature in the United States": and J. D. Grandine, of Crandon, Wis., whose essay was on "The Failure of Cotton Diplomacy during the Civil War." Two other yearlings were given Honorable Mention in the contest: W. M. Flook, Jr., of New York, for a paper on "The American Way: Phrenology...
Where The Cradle Will Rock salted its proletarian thesis with genuinely funny satire, No For An Answer lacks wit - al though left-wingers will like its interpolated lampoon of a saloon-socialite singing I'm Fraught with You. Composer Blitz stein's jittery tunes occasionally develop into muscular near-melodies, are theatrically effective in the last ten minutes of the opera. For the most part they are sung, and sometimes talked, by people who were hired as actors rather than as singers. The production has a minimum of props and no scenery. No For An Answer, presented...