Word: proletarianized
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...written like a man with a bug in his ear, and the bug's favorite theme is the bad old days of predatory landowners and conscienceless capitalists. Any writer who follows this theme strictly is almost bound to fill his pages with the typed, dusty characters of proletarian fiction, Mr. Moneybags the Magnate, Mr. Whip the Overseer, Mr. Steel the Informer, Mr. Dawn the Red, Miss Cominform the Workers' Belle...
Fortunately. News of England (1938), Beverley's proletarian polemic, was his last causal fling. While other Britons dug trenches in the parks and queued for gas masks, he turned to creating something that would "defend . . . small and beautiful things against ... the mass ugliness and beastliness of the herd." His labors resulted in a domed, floodlit hothouse, planned to resemble "a gigantic reproduction of one of Queen Mary's hats...
...were enough to make a good novel, We Fished All Night might be a minor masterpiece. It has a few vivid mo ments: a comic meeting of ward heelers, a warm glimpse of a Polish family. But for the most part its political sermonizing stirs unhappy memories of the "proletarian fiction" of the 19305. In 560 closely printed pages, that is too much of a bad thing...
...Must Be Proletarian." Tanya was three years old when the Russian Revolution started. One of her first experiences was hunger. "For months and months our diet . . . consisted of yellow maize flour, which was made into thin soup, thick porridge, or small buns. When the pangs of hunger became very acute, we ate a handful of raw, uncooked flour. It tasted sweet, but one got hiccups afterward...
...found out how classless a doctor's daughter could be in a "classless" society when she was refused admission to a university. She was told: "You must be of proletarian origin in order to study here. You belong to the employee category, for which we have no quota." She was finally admitted to classes at the Oil Refinery Institute, worked part-time watching boiler gauges. A month's wages came to 83 rubles at a time when a loaf of bread cost...