Word: proletarianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING, by George Orwell. An early (1936) novel of Orwell's, but new to the U.S. Its slashingly satirical attack on left-wing intellectuals and phony-proletarian martyrs of the '305 shows how early Orwell understood that it is the puny fellow traveler who clears the way for Big Brother...
Twenty-four hours later, arriving in Belgrade on a good-will visit, Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis warmly clasped the proletarian paw of Marshal Tito. The inconsistency was more apparent than real: Greece's alliance with Communist Yugoslavia is designed to protect them both from Russian attack. Reaffirming Greek-Yugoslavian solidarity, Karamanlis admitted that the Balkan Pact which links Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey is currently "sleeping"-and will continue to slumber until Turkey and Greece are able to settle their differences over Cyprus...
...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...
...Window they are a once-married couple who meet again after having messed up each other's lives. She is now a desperately chic, a self-seeking but unsought woman who might have married millions but is reduced to modeling and drugs. He, a once tough, talented proletarian who might have been a Labor cabinet minister, is reduced to penny-alining and drink. In Table Number Seven Actor Portman is a natty fraud who has largely invented a dashing military past and a sexually timid duffer who has been pinched for molesting women in cinemas. Actress Leighton...