Word: proletarian
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...home, the angel accepted. The arrangement was not altogether happy. "After all," wrote Balzac to his great friend, Madame Hanska, "she is a man and wants to be a man ... I am extremely-male myself. ..." She called tuberculous Chopin: "Mon cher cadavre (My dear corpse)." Comrade Sand's proletarian friends disgusted the pianist. "Chopin was pushed more and more into the role of a delicate, sensitive, and suffering wife, continually brutalized by a busy husband and his circle of coarse friends." One cold autumn morning, sick, coughing, wrapped to the eyes in blankets, Chopin left Authoress Sand forever...
...Liszt as a successor to Musset and the doctor. Replied the cautious virtuoso: Only God deserves to be loved. In 1836 George Sand wrote in her diary: "Farewell, Eros! You idol of my youth! . . . The present and future are free for the service of humanity. . . ." She began to write proletarian novels in which heroines no longer deserted their husbands for love but for the revolution and the socialist teachings of Saint-Simon and Louis Blanc...
...waiter in a restaurant on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, edited a Bronx newspaper; his return to Russia after the March Revolution of 1917, where he joined Lenin, helped to stage the October Revolution, conducted the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. Because it seemed a major point of proletarian protocol, he wired Lenin to ask whether he should wear a tailcoat to the peace celebration. Lenin answered: "If it will help to bring peace, go in a petticoat...
...Songs for Democracy (The Music Room, No. 133 West 44th St., Manhattan). Rousing collection of proletarian war songs in German, French, English, Spanish, written, rendered and recorded by members of the Eleventh International Brigade during the Spanish Civil...
Last week biggest news was the fact that Germany did not invade Great Britain. Involved in this news was the apparently insignificant circumstance that, years ago, a proletarian Russian named Alexander Shkvartsev took the trouble to learn German. Little Alexander Shkvartsev is the new Soviet Ambassador to Germany...