Word: proletarian
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...somewhat baffling plea to U.S. intellectuals to "take Communism away from the Communists." He got small thanks from Michael Gold, a man of small talent and great authority who functioned as a sort of U.S. cultural commissar for the party. Wrote Gold (later, of course): "Wilson ascended the 'proletarian bandwagon' with the arrogance of a myopic, high-bosomed Beacon Hill matron entering a common streetcar...
...popular terms for what should correctly be called nuclear weapons"), all of which can enliven cocktail conversation at survival parties and make their employer appear very erudite. For obvious security reasons, certain other useful words and phrases were omitted. For example: Ja amerikanskij proletarij (I am an American proletarian), Da zdrstvuet krasnoye osvobozhdenye (Long live the red liberation), and tovarishch (comrade...
...Tell Me a Riddle" won the 1961 O. Henry prize, is of a later generation of writers. She was too young during the Depression to view the people she knew as victims of injustice and the circumstances they lived in as categories fitting into ideological formulae, as did the "proletarian" writers who were adults at the time. To her they were simply real people suffering their own personal hopes and frustrations...
...intellectual freedom with obscene personal denunciations. Most of the letters, many of which were mimeographed, were mailed from the same Warsaw letter box, and police soon identified the sender: Novelist Jerzy Kornacki, 53, a protégé of the late Polish President, Boleslaw Bierut, and author of several proletarian novels (the best known: Hauling the Brick Carts). He is also an active member of Warsaw's Crooked Circle Club, a group of several hundred artists, teachers and historians whose debates on current affairs constitute the only organized forum of free opinion permitted by the regime. Searching Kornacki...
...these are your final terms, we might as well go back to the Plaine des Jarres." Boun Oum snapped: "There is no need to have a three princes' meeting. I never want to hear about a three princes' meeting again." Souphanouvong got in a proletarian retort: "It's not my fault I'm a prince. I was born a prince, and I have to live with it." At a press conference, Boun Oum said: "I've told Prince Souvanna Phouma this afternoon that he had neither the confidence of the people nor of the elite...