Word: proletarian
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...latest decree of the Soviet Government of Russia, Which eliminates nearly one hundred thousand students of non-proletarian origin from high schools and colleges, seems to be an unfortunate continuation of the Communist policy of destroying the bourgeois class. In aiming to provide educational facilities for students in the lower walks of life, the Soviet authorities are working with a beneficent intent, but in persisting in elevating one class at the expense of another, their wisdom is more than doubtful. The Communists have apparently discovered, however, that one of the best ways to keep opponents out of power...
Many "schools" were represented-symbolists, acmeists, futurists, centrifugalists, imaginists, Moscow Parnassians, poets proletarian, poets peasant, neoromantic, non -classic, constructive, aimless poets, nichevoki poets, poets aloof, high-brow and low-brow and poets independent...
...ease and rapidity with which an American collector of antiques can rush to Europe and squander fifteen hundred thousand dollars for trifles of remote historical interest strikes the mere proletarian with a sense of awe. Such a performance is in itself history--or it would have been, if the headline under which the newspaper report of the latest expatiation appeared. "Resenbach Bae's With Napoleon's White Breeches," were not more suggestive of fast work by a second-story man than of dignified collecting. One visualizaes, somehow, not a fine old antiquarian, displaying his acquisitions with solemn pride...
...Bolshevik critics attacked both authors from a purely Marxian viewpoint, but were harsher to Lunacharsky than to Shakespeare. They thought Shakespeare's play was capable of "'proletarian" interpretation, though as produced in Moscow, gave a "disgusting, vulgar, ignorant, bloodthirsty" effect...
...dramatic picture, artistically conceived, realistically executed. But we ask whether there is not yet a third Lunacharsky addition to the prefacial exponent and the dramatist- Lunacharsky the Bolshevik Commissioner of Education and head of the censorship-and whether the latter doesn't think this production of our national proletarian theatre needs a heavy dose of blue pencil...