Word: proletarianized
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When Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution finally shuddered toward an end five years ago, the machinery of government was paralyzed, the structure of the Communist Party shattered, and China teetered on the brink of anarchy. It was the leaders of the nation's armed forces who then filled the political vacuum...
...hands of Spain in the European basketball championships four weeks ago, an event that had been won by the Soviet Union for 18 years straight. But, said the Communist youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, the real roots of the problem lay in the fact that the players had lost their proletarian humility. Since their stunning gold-medal win in Munich, it wrote, the players had turned into overconfident performers whose once brilliant strategies had become "unimaginative and stereotyped." Soviet Basketball Federation officials, the paper charged, "created a climate of total permissiveness" for the team's star players, who began...
Jeans and denim skirts seem to have become a permanent part of many women's wardrobes, but the pure proletarian look is quickly receding. The new, rather reactionary yen is to set off casual clothes with touches of camp or swank. Result: a growing trend toward offbeat tops as snazzy, jazzy, individualistic mates for the denims. During the summer this took the form of T shirts with silk-screen designs (Marilyn Monroe pinups, for example), funny messages ("Keep on Truckin' ") or advertising slogans ("Try it, you'll like it"). For fall and winter the fad is expanding...
...repeat--in order to finish my speech--please excuse me for its length--I am a man who went to a university, but I have learned much more in the university of life. I have learned about the proletarian mothers in the shantytowns; I have learned about the peasant, who, without speaking to me, told me about the more than hundred years of exploitation experienced by his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather; I have learned about the worker, who in the factory is a number, or used to be a number and meant nothing as a human being...
This is something that I have felt and suffered both as a man and as a doctor. When I have gone to the shantytowns to see the working women, these proletarian mothers, shouting our slogans with hope and I realize, with sadness, that their mouths all lack teeth...