Word: proletarianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Khrushchev, the proletarian, overflows with animal vigor, Bulganin exudes good manners 1;and a faint whiff of eau de cologne. Khrushchev's idea of fun is to strip off his shirt and wrestle with his colleagues; Bulganin's sport is fishing, and he loves ballet. "Dress Bulganin up in striped pants and a black coat, and he'd look at home in any European Parliament," says one Western diplomat. "Khrushchev in the same garb would still look what he isa tough proletarian...
...Next Day-Pfft." Bulganin's career illustrates this interlocking of interests among the Kremlin gang. As a Chekist in home-town Nizhni Novgorod, he served under Kaganovich (1918), Molotov (1919), Mikoyan (1920). The official Soviet biography makes Bulganin a proletarian, born of a "worker's family," but his father was probably a clerk, and sufficiently beyond the proletariat to be able to send his boy Nikolai to technical high school, where he got a solid grounding in math, physics and German...
...says he "wasn't fitted for that academic rah-rah stuff." He studied art in England, France and the U.S., came into his own with the Great Depression and the W.P.A. His choleric temperament led him to heel far left for a time, made him a top "proletarian painter" of the 1930s...
...Bohrod did the Governor Knight cover for the May 30 issue. Shahn, who started out as a lithographer, first won success with his series of beautiful but bitter watercolors protesting the 1927 execution of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. As a young "social realist," he had a reputation for proletarian-protest painting; but a 25-year retrospective showing of his works early this year in Manhattan made clear that time had mellowed his work as well as himself. Today, he is regarded as one of the world's top contemporary painters...
...House of Commons." Society patrons responded with a hoarse cheer so blatant that Marlene, entering in a bit of gossamer so diaphanous that Britain's press fears to publish photos of it, was scarcely noticed. Later, Battling Bessie and Marlene chatted cozily. With no apologies for her proletarian garb, Bessie said: "I just had time to wash my face...