Word: proletarian
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German subways have always carried second-and third-class cars; but last week the Berlin subway, responsive to modern Republican ideals, threw all its cars open to the public without discrimination at a 20 pfennig fare (5c). Many a proletarian grumbled because the onetime third-class fare had been only 15 pfennigs. Many an aristocrat was vexed to be crowded into third-class cars with wooden benches, while pushful workingmen reclined on first-class red velvet. All, however, were elated with civic pride at another feature of the new service: the one-class fare ticket is valid not only...
Finally the 40 man-eating wolves especially captured in Siberia, will battle to the death with 40 savage imperial borzois. . . . Educational, and instructive. . . . The first proletarian spectacle of its kind since Roman times. . . . Next day the Soviet news organ Isvestia sternly announced that no such "spectacle" would be permitted, quoted from the law forbidding prizefights in Russia "because the sport is not conducive to the invigoration of the working masses, but tends to arouse their baser emotions...
...good will if not the admiration of the non-laboring class. The party leadership of Mr. Macdonald is unshaken, perhaps strengthened; but the trade union leaders are tarnished heroes. One hundred percent Communists, like A. J. Cook, were frankly turning last week toward the creation of a new British proletarian movement...
...Eisenstein, striving religiously to make his film the drama of a group, almost permits one character to emerge as hero. Such an effect would have ruined the general scheme, yet so keenly does the need for individual enterprise make itself felt, in even a glorified crowd, that the proletarian artist must give it at least grudging recognition...