Word: proletarianism
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...streets of Budapest were like a favorite proletarian tableau come to frightening life-shouting students, muscular workers, flag-waving women raising fists on the barricades and braving death. But the oppressors they defied were their Communist masters. As the final irony of this amazing situation, the only word the Communists could think of to apply to these genuine revolutionaries was the epithet "counter-revolutionaries...
...muscular man with rough proletarian manners, rated no speechmaker, brusque, brown-eyed Kadar vowed he would get Rakosi, who worried about Kadar's growing popularity in the Communist youth organizations. By picking Kadar to succeed Gero as party boss last week, the Russians reckoned to appease Hungarian national feeling, but still keep a hard-core Communist in the key party position...
...this election. As a door-to-door campaigner, as a driver of voters and motorcades, as a poll-judge and leaflet distributor, the student can at last make idea meet action. It is also, by the way, a chance for the effect and scholarly to encounter the inert and proletarian. If the campaign efforts of a doorbell-ringer or a pamphlet-strewer seem meager, at least there is always the "value of the experience...
...heavy on the air, and the stillness of spring nights was shattered by the popping of champagne corks. Despite repeated government warnings to tighten all belts, London last week was in the giddy midst of the most extravagant social season since 1938. "The British upper class," wrote the doggedly proletarian New Statesman and Nation, "has got the bit between its teeth. Not since the '30s has it consumed so much bad champagne and dubious caviar, trampled so much broken glass underfoot, and driven so many village dressmakers to profitable distraction. Society is scrambling shakily to its feet again...
During the strife-torn 1870s in Paris, a passing proletarian stopped by a sidewalk table at the Café de la Paix to jeer at an elderly champagne-sipper: "You! We didn't get you in '48, but we won't miss in the next revolution." Last week the revolution finally engulfed the Café de la Paix. After 86 years as a bastion of fashion (and fancy prices), the famed restaurant turned over one-eighth of its floor space to an American-style snack bar. Georges Marcovich, the café's Manager of External Relations...