Word: proletarian
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...more than a century, New York's City College has enjoyed the reputation of a top-level school, a proletarian Harvard with such distinguished graduates as Felix Frankfurter, Jonas Salk, Bernard Malamud, Ira Gershwin and Alfred Kazin. In recent years, however, City College and the 19 other institutions that make up the tuition-free City University of New York (CUNY) have found it increasingly difficult to keep up their standards. Reason: a 1969 ruling that opened the doors of the university to any student holding a high-school diploma from New York City's school system, which graduates...
...deckhand who brings her iced coffee for the offensive odor of his sweaty shirt; Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini) is the long-suffering deckhand, devoted equally to the Communist Party and to machismo. The plot is equally classic: shipwrecked together on a beautiful mediterranean isle, the two characters reverse roles entirely. Proletarian Gennarino humiliates bourgeois Rafaella sadistically, avenging class oppression and affronts to his masculinity simultaneously. But once Raffaella submits willingly, the "natural" position of man as master and woman as slave takes over and they fall deeply in love...
...mobile, obviously, is the Chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, 61, who surfaced last week in Shansi province to make her first public speech since the chaotic days of the Cultural Revolution more than five years ago. After addressing a conference on Chinese agriculture, Mme. Mao then showed her proletarian stuff by donning peasant clothing and setting to work shoveling the good earth from a nearby irrigation ditch...
...fashion's current Orient Express rolling last spring, concentrated at first on supple, sensuous clothes with a low hip line. The Japanese-born Kenzo noted that his styles "had affinities with the Chinese look, so we carried on the Chinese line." Among the first U.S. designers to introduce proletarian posh was Cinnamon Wear's Britta, whose workers' drop-shouldered jackets and raincoats flopped like wet rice when they came out last year; now the firm has trouble keeping up with demand...
...last week and then barely retreated-but the country lost more freedoms. A crisis had erupted over the issue of whether the country would be able to make its fragile coalition government work or would dispense with political parties altogether and install either a military government or an outright proletarian dictatorship run by workers' commissions and neighborhood committees. President Francisco da Costa Gomes, fresh from a bridge-building visit to Rumania, went into extraordinary, round-the-clock sessions with the 29-member Revolutionary Council, the government's highest authority. Said a Western diplomat in Lisbon: "This...