Word: proletarian
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...FOUNDRY?Albert Halper?Viking ($2.50). This second novel by a young "proletarian" whose Union Square won him a Guggenheim Fellowship tells of workers and bosses in an electrotype foundry...
Swede Gosta Larsson has been living in the U. S. long enough (eleven years) to 'write his first novel in English and to announce it as the first volume of a trilogy. Gentler in tone than most proletarian novels (perhaps because its scene is patient Sweden), it hints at a rougher sequel. To many a reader who likes highly-seasoned stories, Our Daily Bread will seem insipid fare, but for those who can do without salt it will provide an honest mouthful...
Walter Lippmann '10, concluded his series of Godkin lectures with an eulogy of the middle class and an attack on the alliance of plutocrats and proletarian groups which menace the operation of democracy, at the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon...
...Lippmann's solution for the difficulties which Democratic, governments encounter from special interests and "pressure groups" was to lift the proletarian classes to a point where they would be independent and where their "right to work" would be secure. He referred to Aristotle's belief in the reliability of those of the population in the "middle condition" and quoted from "The New Party Politics" by Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06. He demanded that the state guarantee the right to work. This problem is not insoluble, he said, as the possibilities of useful public works are "really inexhaustible...
...young left-wing novelists, grumble that these youths have sold their birthright of dreams for a mess of revolutionary economics. Left-wing critics retort that while the nightmare of the capitalist system persists, no young writer worth his salt can close his eyes to it. Many a "proletarian novel" is rightly thrown out of the literary court as mere advertising for the Communist cause; but the literary sergeants-at-arms will think twice before they begin hustling Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty. Though diehard right-wingers will call it propaganda, most readers will find it troubling, critics...