Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abiding Germans hung open-mouthed on his words. Nothing seemed to annoy bullet-headed Presiding Judge Blanker like the defend ant's persistent snapping of the word selbstvcrstdndlich ("self-evident") to questions whether or not he was a Communist, had been exiled from Bulgaria, believed in the proletarian revolution, had traveled under forged passports...
Pierre Hamp, proletarian (as opposed to propagandist) author, has had a queer and difficult apprenticeship in his profession. In Kitchen Prelude, the story of his youth, he tells what it was like to be a pastry-cook's helper in Paris, a chef's assistant behind such glittering faqades as Marguery's Restaurant and London's Savoy Hotel...
...anyone who has heard the Nation speak out loud and bold, for it makes us once more privy to the fact that some undergraduates do not think enough about social problems, to the fact that there are many people in the United States who are neither bourgeois nor proletarian and thereby confuse the Communist issue, to the fact that people cannot spend much money during a depression and are forced to resort to the older and simpler pleasures of the race, and to the final fact that there is in all this much material for thought. The symposium, it should...
...Author. Though agitated left-wing critics have made much pother about the rise of U. S. "proletarian literature," few respectable examples have so far come to light. To the sparse shelf that holds John Dos Passes' unfinished trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919) critics can now add the beginning of Josephine Herbst's. Her purpose is orthodox: to show the collapse of the "bourgeois" class. The second volume will bring her Trexler family up to the War; the third to 1933. Like Dos Passes, Authoress Herbst is not a member of the Communist Party, though her sympathies are even...
...publisher, a traffic manager, a contractor from The Bronx, etc. One of them is an architect hailing from Groton, Yale, and the Beaux-Arts, another a Parkavian civil engineer. The vital first act is over. If Mr. Mitchell is convicted it will not be by the prejudices of a proletarian jury...