Word: proletarianism
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Substantial parts of DelCorso's Gallery are set in Viet Nam and Lebanon; the novel is not only about war but also about the relationship between morals and aesthetics. Nicholas DelCorso, the proletarian hero with a limp caused by an old wound, acts as if the good and the beautiful are inseparable. He is an award-winning news photographer who, like a Hemingway bullfighter, prefers to work in close. The moment of truth occurs in the darkroom when the faces of he anguished and the dead resolve Beneath the surface of the developing solution...
...John Paul waited until he had gone to Poland's industrial heartland to deliver his strongest sermon on the rights of workers. Standing under the Madonna of Piekary, an image of the Virgin Mary much revered by the region's coal miners, John Paul told his predominantly proletarian audience that work is "at the heart of all social life" and is governed "by a just moral order." He added: "If this order is missing, injustice takes the place of justice, and love is replaced by hatred...
Only another week, thank God. My hand is already calloused and misshapen from pressing the proletarian flesh. Then last night I woke up shouting, "Hear, hear, "in response to Margaret's snores, which will give you some idea of how far things have gone...
Last week's game of cat-and-mouse may be a small sign that the veneer is about to crack. Following Walesa's brief detention, Solidarity leaders issued a call for widespread protest demonstrations in Poland on May Day. As the most important festival in the proletarian calendar neared, the question also loomed of whether Polish workers and the Polish "workers' state" were once more on a collision course...
...Italian Communist daily L'Unita, Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer sounded off against countries that "reduce the grand, living lessons of Marx to an ideological credo," a pointed reference to the Soviet Union. Viet Nam took China to task in a lengthy commentary on the "Great Teacher of Proletarian Revolution," published in the government daily Nhan Dan. Among other charges, the newspaper claimed that Peking's independent Communist line "negates the universal principles of Marxism-Leninism...