Word: proletarianism
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...Boston press, apparently, Harvard and intellectuals were on trial, not the Tropic of Cancer. In an ostensibly proletarian, circulation - conscious fashion, reporters picked away at piddling points that might make Harvard or eggheads look foolish...
...woodcutter's wish is the golden key that opens one of the gloomiest and loveliest volumes of European legend. Translated to a Mexican setting by B. Traven, a mysterious recluse (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948) who lives in Mexico and writes masterly proletarian novels and short stories, the legend has been transformed by two gifted Mexicans, Director Roberto Gavaldon and Cameraman Gabriel Figueroa, into a fragile but profound little picture that abounds and delights in the black-and-white magic of the magic lantern...
...always felt for the injustice of which they were guiltless and complete repudiation of the charges so ignobly made." A far-right Tory himself. Waugh declared that attempts to brand Wodehouse a fascist were part of a wartime conspiracy to "direct the struggle for national survival into proletarian revolution." Far from being a playboy, bristled Waugh, Plum is "one of the most diligent writers living" (total: 81 books, 23 plays), whose European royalties had in fact paid for the "soft...
Died. Kenneth Flexner Fearing, 59, minor Kipling of the asphalt jungle, a Chicago corporation lawyer's son who became a proletarian poet during the Depression, a pseudonymous pulp-primer and novelist of such high-voltage thrillers as The Big Clock; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...small group (about 80 men over the past 38 years) who have painted a TIME cover. This is Joe Jones's first magazine cover, but his is a name well known among gallerygoers. St. Louis-born, Jones hit the art world in the '30s as an angry proletarian painter with an oft-quoted ambition: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls." But even then he was also painting Midwestern wheatland themes, and he soon changed his politics, his subject matter and his style of painting. Then came the Joe Jones of the more familiar style...