Word: proletarianism
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Chairman Hua Kuo-feng might consider making selections from Witke's book required reading for the period of de-Chiang Ch'ingification. Certain descriptions of Mme, Mao's "imperial proletarian style" would serve the new regime well in illustrating just how "bourgeois right" an "ultraleftist...
After that, it is the Communists' turn. They are represented by a husband-wife team of rich dilettantes, whose aim is to turn the widow into a proletarian heroine. Their sheer companionship is helpful, especially since Frau Kusters' son and his pregnant wife flee to Finland to avoid the scandal, while her daughter uses all the sudden notoriety to try to further her tacky career as a cabaret artiste. But the party is not really interested in clearing the Kusters name, just in exploiting it as propaganda. Finally, Mother Kusters goes off with a building janitor, who offers...
...Chinese standards (5 ft. 5 in.), Chiang Ch'ing was slim and small-boned, with delicate, tapered hands. She gestured with liquid motions as she spoke, occasionally running a green-and-white plastic comb through her dark short-cropped hair. In what Witke described as her "imperial proletarian style," Chiang Ch'ing was surrounded by aides, bodyguards, her own doctors; the retinue hovers around her, silent and watchful; a scribe duly notes everything that she says; nobody else talks while Chiang Ch'ing is giving her monologue. She even made it clear to Witke that...
...influence, Mao had proclaimed that all plays portraying "ghosts" or "emperors and princes, generals and ministers, gifted scholars and beauties" should be banned. Instead, there should be idealization of the proletariat. Thus Chiang Ch'ing had started during the Cultural Revolution to build a new "proletarian " art from scratch. One of her successes was the showy Red Detachment of Women-performed for President Nixon in Peking in 1972. She recounts the difficulties she had in staging this theatrical extravaganza...
Died. Edward Dahlberg, 76, contentious critic, poet and author (Bottom Dogs); in Santa Barbara, Calif. The illegitimate son of a hairdresser, Dahlberg had a bleak childhood in and out of orphanages. His early angry proletarian works evolved into high-styled aphoristic essays in which he denounced contemporary life and letters in a manner reminiscent of Thoreau...