Word: proletarianism
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Followers of Major Clifford Hugh Douglas' economic theories will be pleased at Author Converse's sympathetic reference to Social Credit. And even those whom James Joyce calls "gracekopers" might find food for meditation in this proletarian grace...
Fear is the name of a four-act play by A. N. Afinogenow which, for the last two years, has been the outstanding theatrical attraction of Soviet Russia. Unlike most recent Russian literary works, Fear, though written by a proletarian, is not Soviet propaganda. It aims to show the miseries of the proletariat under Soviet rule, to make a case for the survivors of the Tsarist aristocracy. Its hero, Ivan Ilich Borodin, scientific director of the Institute of Physiological Stimuli, is patently patterned after Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1904. At first Fear...
...Senate ("World's Greatest Club"), the scene was less proletarian. Camaraderie of a more formal sort marked the occasion, whose dignity was impaired only for an instant when cut-awayed Col. Halsey, the Senate's popular secretary, lost a garter...
...philippics helped to smash Philadelphia's Boss William Scott Vare last month. In Philadelphia where there is no Hearst and where the stodgy Bulletin has been a model for the city's other journals, the Record got attention by rowdy headlines, pictures of chorus girls, comic strips, proletarian social-advice columns, interlarded with intelligent liberalism...
...product of the industrial revolution, the soapbox, has left its mark on all consciously "proletarian" writing. Curbstone oratory, more effective in the open air than in the echoing covers of a book, is drawing bigger crowds than once it did, and publishers, their anxious fingers on the public pulse, are beginning to prescribe this form of mild dynamite. Though alert Publisher Farrar finds Upsurge "impossible to describe," he admits that this manifesto-poem is "frankly a message...