Word: proletarianized
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Giovanni Mannu, 37, a careworn Sardinian coal miner with a red mustache, went to bed one night as usual-a poor proletarian who had pledged his faith and taken out a card in Italy's Communist Party. Next day he was rich...
...unusual success of the post-war Italian film has been with proletarian tragedy. Its shoeshine boys and unemployed slum-dwellers are caught up in vast economic forces beyond their comprehension or control. Both Rossellini and de Sica had only to step out in the street to find actors who had already lived the roles. But Rossellini had to depart from the sociological for the psychological to give Miss Bergman a role with depth enough for her talents...
Stubbornly shunning momentary poetic fashions, whether proletarian or metaphysical, he has kept on writing in Williams-style: hard little poems that observe with precision how a housewife looks in the morning, or how The green-blue ground is ruled with silver lines to say the sun is shining...
Then Norman Thomas' Socialism began to pall. Field decided it was time to get up in the vanguard of the proletarian revolution. Whether he became a Communist card holder or not, he acted and talked like one, throwing himself with furious concentration into Communist activities...
...greedily levied up to 8% interest on loans. Then a rebel Labor politico in Sydney, "Big Jack" Lang, charged sensationally that Chifley himself once lent money at rates up to 9%. Labor's embarrassed leader said it was true-only he had invested the money for proletarian friends and neighbors, taken nothing for himself. At his final rally, shirtsleeved Premier Chifley mixed with former railway cronies, reminded hard-drinking Australians how Labor had relaxed the closing time for pubs: "Remember how pubkeepers had to keep cockatoos to warn them when cops were coming...