Word: proletarian
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...cinematic best a shaggy lumpen proletarian helplessly meshed in the woof of modern life, Cinemillionaire Charlie Chaplin off the set could apparently out-guile even a Boston textile tycoon. According to a suit filed last week in Manhattan by a widow of a onetime business pal, Charlie was wont to have his royalties deposited at Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co., then transferred to a Swiss banker, who funneled the funds to a dummy corporation set up by Chaplin in currency-careless Tangier. Result: two years after Chaplin settled in Switzerland-and while the U.S. Government was vainly trying...
Still in his 20s and still living in Poland, Marek Hlasko writes the kind of story that the regime must find irritatingly lacking in proletarian joy. The young workmen in The Most Sacred Words of Our Life are indifferent to their jobs, cynical and joyless. The young hero is lyrically awakened by a beautiful love affair with a tender and passionate girl. He leaves her in the morning to rush to work, and discovers that three of his fellow workmen have had the same girl, that she has spoken to them the identical, sacred words of endearment...
After this setback to the right, the left took its licks. In the hallowed "proletarian" section of Paris between the Bastille and the Place de la Republique, 2,000 Communists roamed the streets shouting, "Fascism shall not pass!" A woman stepped out from behind one of the Red commandos to jeer at the police: "Sa-lauds!" With a roar, a squadron of 30 flics charged. The plainclothesman leading them hit the jeering woman squarely in the mouth. The rest of the mob faded away...
Appetite for Acclaim. On May Day-an occasion notable this year throughout the world for its listlessness as well as its planned lack of proletarian provocation-Nasser became the first non-Communist head of state ever to take the Red army's salute as guest of honor beside Khrushchev and Marshal Malinovsky atop the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square. "Nasser Reviews Red Army," crowed the Cairo press. Khrushchev entertained him at his dacha, at the Bolshoi ballet, at a Lenin Stadium soccer match, at a whole round of banquets. Taking time off only to pray at Moscow...
From Pinsk to Prague, it was open season last week on errant Iron Curtain athletes. Cops and customs guards were putting the arm on muscular heroes for all the little illegal adventures that were once a proletarian winner's prerogatives...