Word: proletarian
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Yale's Professor Robert Dahl, in a study of New Haven politics, points out that a genuinely ethnic group remains seriously ethnic only so long as it remains proletarian. But the time comes when large segments of the group are assimilated into the "middling and upper strata ... and look to others in the middling strata for friends, associates and marriage partners. To these people, ethnic politics is often embarrassing or meaningless." In New Haven, he set rough dates for the achievement of this state by various groups-the Germans by 1920, the Irish 1930, Russians 1940, Italians 1950, Negroes...
...tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has produced the greatest proletarian traffic jam in history. From Tibet to Tsingtao, the roads, rails and airlines of Red China are jammed with Chinese on the move. Most are Red Guards heading to and from Peking to spread the word of the leader's glory. Their road map-passed out on trains, sung on airliners-is a cheap (about 25?), red, plastic-bound copy of Mao's Thought. So massive is the movement that the government has begun to drop a hint to the faithful: get out and walk...
...Quiet One. Several elements serve to explain Dos Passes' eclipse. A change in literary fashion left him beached with the wreckage of the realistic novel. A change in intellectual-political fashion, moreover, left his best work tainted by identification with the social-protest or even "proletarian" production of the Red Decade. This offense was compounded by the fact that his later work gave aid and comfort to the right, just as his earlier books had succored the left. The three novels that constitute District of Columbia (1952) have been unfairly dismissed as the rightist tracts of an embittered...
...Hara shifts with ease from the gilded but ghastly life of the West Coast and jet-set Manhattan to the grubby, proletarian reality of small towns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His inept storekeeper, Lintzie, in Gibbsville and his Mrs. Kenneth R. Schumacher of Swedish Haven, Pa., are every bit as convincing as his faded movie stars and pop singers going to fat. Their predicaments, in fact, are often more convincing since O'Hara well knows how it is that bizarre events can occur in the most banal surroundings...
Smashing Barriers. Once the sport of the titled and the wealthy, the chase no longer has an easily identifiable horsy set. Distinguished old blueblooded hunting associations like the Quorn, which was organized 250 years ago, still flourish. But the 200 hunts in the British Isles today include such proletarian pacesetters as the Banwen Miners, a club formed in 1963 by Welsh coal diggers. While the miners may not all wear the scarlet coat and velvet cap, they bound after the fox with abandon. The Duchess of Beaufort, who rode with them one Saturday, graciously paid the supreme compliment of pronouncing...