Word: proletarian
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Colleges of all stripes -- public and private, princely and proletarian -- are retrenching in an effort to stay afloat. Meanwhile, expenses are rising. A declining pool of 18-year-olds has forced schools into a pricey competition for students. The cost of high-tech equipment and high-profile professors continues to grow, along with such expenses as medical insurance. The cutbacks are causing alarm among faculty members and a furor among students, who are worried that schools will be unable to deliver on the educational promises made in their glossy catalogs...
Pheasant under glass seems an unlikely entree to gain popularity during the frugal 1990s. But Henry Saglio, the owner of Connecticut's Grayledge-Avian Farms, wants to make pheasant more proletarian. Back in the 1940s, Saglio's Arbor Acres farm raised some of the first of the meatier and cheaper white chickens that became a diet staple. For the past five years, he has been perfecting a broad-breasted breed of pheasant that is meatier and more tender than its wild brethren in the hope of popularizing that fowl...
...just see it listed in the course-book as "Social Analysis 50: Harvard Dorm Crew and the Proletarian Life." The course description would read as follows...
...Washington, and you'll find an Administration that loves the working class -- as a concept anyway. George Bush favors pork cracklings, and was probably munching on that well-known proletarian treat as he nixed the bill that would have extended unemployment benefits. Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders -- a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like...
...morning of May 5, some 400 people gathered in a park near Berlin's Alexanderplatz and scattered flowers at the base of the Marx-Engels memorial to commemorate the 173rd birthday of the philosopher who prophesied the ultimate triumph of proletarian revolution. Karl Marx, proclaimed a speaker, should not be blamed for the errors of the former Socialist Unity Party, which for 40 years had ruled East Germany. WE'LL DO BETTER NEXT TIME read a slogan someone had chalked at the base of the memorial. WE'RE NOT GUILTY said another. A third graffito was sardonically realistic...