Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defeat in the 1951 election, Attlee held on to the leadership and watched the developing struggle between ex-Coal Miner Nye and the middleclass, intellectual Gaitskell, who had never lived in a slum or walked in a picket line. With all the passion and eloquence of his proletarian youth, Bevan raged that Gaitskell was a "desiccated calculating machine." No phrasemaker, Gaitskell did not engage Nye in verbal combat, instead coolly and shrewdly lined up the trade union rank and file behind him. When Attlee finally resigned after the Tory victory in the 1955 election, the party chose the quiet...
...sooner had Democrats swept California than they set to fighting among themselves. The main antagonists: Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, ham-fisted leader of California's Democratic professionals, and former National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, a Beverly Hills tax lawyer who drives a silver Rolls-Royce but thinks in proletarian terms. The stakes: the Democratic nomination for Governor, if Pat Brown decides...
Lingering Hostility. While workers on the Continent increasingly consider themselves as men on the way up, British workers, thanks in part to stodgy and left-leaning union leadership, are mired in old proletarian cliches. Though Britain's unions are numerically the strongest in Europe-43% of the total working force-they have accomplished far less "leveling"' than advertised. A mere 2% of the population still owns nearly half the wealth, and 81% of the country's wage earners draw $2.800 a year or less before taxes. In straight cash terms, British workers earn the top wages...
Last week a new voice of authority proclaimed the revived right of women to be proletarian and pretty. The Sunday supplement of Izvestia argued: "You can't deny a woman's striving to be attractive. What woman's heart does not miss a beat at the words: 'Now that dress suits you' or 'What a splendid hairdo.' This is not just a caprice, but a demand of the times and a reflection of the increased cultural level. We must not consider these 'petty matters' unworthy of attention." Trouble was, added Izvestia...
...Proletarian swimmers cannot go beyond a line of buoys about 30 yards from shore; if they do, a police launch waves them back to prevent a possible escape to an occasional Greek or Italian ship that puts in at the Durres harbor. When a West German ship arrived carrying badly needed Canadian wheat−paid for by Peking−it was not allowed into the harbor at all; the cargo was laboriously transferred by launch. Although Albania has 250 miles of Adriatic coastline, fish are scarce because the regime permits only a handful of politically trustworthy fishermen to venture...