Word: proletarianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What kind of American becomes a Communist or a fellow traveler? Persistently, both right and left tend to answer the question by referring to a type that logically emerges from the writings of Marx; the pro-Communist is expected to be a poverty-driven, culturally disinherited proletarian rebel. But increasingly the U.S. is aware of another type-not poverty-stricken, not rebellious by temperament, not disinherited by external economic forces but created by a subtle psychological rejection of the values upon which Western civilization has been built. In short, an idealist gone wrong...
Since the coming of the commissars, Hungarian women, who used to be among Europe's most chic, have turned pale and proletarian. Reason: the commissars banned cosmetics. One result: a black market in smuggled lipsticks and rouge...
...year from the Grand Central Art Galleries, offered the works of only two painters-Social Realist Ben Shahn and Abstract-Expressionist Willem De Kooning. A two-man affair by deliberate museum decision, it made for a forceful though far from representative showing. Shahn, whose art had its roots in proletarian fury and has now become fashionable, topped the list of lesser prizewinners with an $800 award. Many exhibitors, notably those of the Iron Curtain countries, seemed stifled by their messages. Shahn, on the contrary, is lost without one. Shahn's earliest work on exhibition was a wonderfully gentle idealization...
...headlines. Even the Communists were perplexed. Example: after years of obediently denouncing NATO as "aggressive . . . warmongering . . . imperialist," editorialists for East German newspapers stumbled all over themselves trying to explain why the Kremlin was suddenly applying for NATO membership and inviting the American imperialists into the peace-loving proletarian camp...
...summer night in 1928, first nighters crowded into a Berlin theater to see Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), composed by a young highbrow named Kurt Weill on a text by a proletarian poet named Bert Brecht. Nobody thought it would last more than a few performances. How could an eight-piece orchestra and a tatterdemalion cast compete with the great music dramas of Wagner and the moderns? But two years later, Threepenny Opera was still running, and since then it has had thousands of performances, including a handful in the U.S. Last week it was revived in Manhattan...