Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week biggest news was the fact that Germany did not invade Great Britain. Involved in this news was the apparently insignificant circumstance that, years ago, a proletarian Russian named Alexander Shkvartsev took the trouble to learn German. Little Alexander Shkvartsev is the new Soviet Ambassador to Germany...
Several stories are dark with proletarian mysticism; several sustain their fervor with uncommon grace. Meridel Le Sueur has seen a few things around Kansas and Illinois that nobody else has put down; she puts them down hard...
...welter of organizers, stool pigeons, scabs, Senators, professors, company executives, reporters, cops, lawyers. "By using only actual, attested events as materials," says Author Levin, "the writer reduces the possibility of arriving at false conclusions." Far less objective than this apologia suggests, Citizens is an ambitious technical experiment in the "proletarian" novel...
...reminders that the silver program was designed to raise the world price artificially, he could note that the price was lower than ever (34¾?) and that without the U. S. purchase plan† the natural price might be 10 to 15? per oz., which would permit the lowliest proletarian to own complete sets of sterling tableware. Finally he could stand pat on the wise remark of Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown: "If we are going to follow an unsound policy, then let us confine it to our own citizens...
Most thoroughly disliked, most easily located was the proletarian accent of New York City. ("He'd alwiss shoik making gah cherce.") This accent is characterized by a dentalized t (pronounced with the tip of the tongue between the teeth), by an excessively hissing s, by heavy ng sounds (e.g., "making gah" for "making a"); and by closing and diphthongizing certain vowels, so that "ask" sounds like "ay-usk" (or "ay-ust"), and "cough" sounds like "co-uff." The uneducated New Yorker seems to say "shoik" for "shirk" and "cherce" for "choice." Actually he uses the same sound, intermediate between...