Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attending masses by the New York Times's representative. The Herald Tribune's informant caught "a grim note of realism." It became known that 2,000 official admission tickets to the inaugural had mysteriously disappeared. The Philippine constabulary strongly suspected they had been filched by Sakdalistas, proletarian radicals who staged a bloody uprising few weeks before the Filipino people went to the polls last May to approve the new Constitution. Now the Sakdalistas were plotting heaven knew what mischief in the Commonwealth's first hour. Taking no chances, the constabulary and a detachment of U. S. troops...
...applied if necessary to whip Il Duce (TIME, Sept. 23). Yet last week Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee was imploring voters to "Stop War! Vote Labor!" In other words he thought that the mass of British voters could be duped by catch phrases and have no true, proletarian backbone. They have not and John Bull, in John's own expressive slang, is not going to let Labor "sell a pup." John would not be duped last week into anything so fancy as Socialism, the creed of the Labor Party...
...only as to symbolism but as to narrative. The humble workers take it on the chin for a couple of acts, then stage a strike during which the hero is killed. The finale still finds the strike unsettled, but homegoing playgoers are given the impression that a desirable proletarian militancy has been aroused and better days are probably ahead for the workers of the world...
...social protest' and of drab 'American scene,' seems to have actuated the prize-awarding jurors. . . . The present show is largely invited and presumably is a carefully considered cross-section of American art as it is being produced in the studios of today. If so, then the proletarian gloom that hangs over our artists is becoming as thick as Stalin's Russian fog."-Clarence Joseph Bulliet in the Chicago Daily News...
...beginning of his career Liebermann was influenced by the proletarian movements that were sweeping Europe in the 'eighties. In his prints and paintings he represents the humble worker in his shop or in the fields...