Word: proletarianized
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...hapless Chinese people caught in Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, there was no sign of relief from the political convulsions that gripped the nation. If anything, the purge was likely to grow more intensive. A new list of the top leaders announced by Radio Peking signaled the downfall of some, the rise of others. The highest riser: Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the product of desperation and is unlikely to solve Red China's problems of backward industries and a famine-prone agricultural system. It seems incredible that Mao might have forgotten so soon, but the last time Red China tried a Great Leap Forward, it set the country back a full ten years...
...fought against Hitler and Franco, and his consort is a very nice schoolteacher married to someone else. The jilted husband sets Security on the coup!e. It is a setup calculated to have the bleachers cheering as the pro-Communist pair outwit the villainous security men. The proletarian hero investigates the investigators and exposes his three persecutors as 1) the husband of a convicted shoplifter and father of a reefer-drag ging beatnik son, 2) a collector of fancy ceramics specializing in Victorian toilet bowls, and 3) a queer...
...official in the party's regional directorate was accused of having shamelessly attacked party cadres. "He has not yet made a confession," snarled the local radio, "but he will not be allowed to sneak by." The Deputy Governor of Shantung province was charged with attempting to "abolish the proletarian dictatorship," while other Deputy Governors had apparently been removed...
Boredom at Home Plate. From Fort Hamilton to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn today is an amorphous urban sprawl, the most populous (2,600,000 in 80.9 sq.mi.) and proletarian of all five boroughs that comprise New York City. The turning point probably came between the time Durocher left the Dodgers (1948) and the time the Dodgers left Flatbush (1958). Now a housing project occupies Ebbets Field, and one of its occupants, Rodney Kenner, 9, buried the Bums for all time last week as he rode a bicycle where home plate used to be. "You know," said Rodney, "baseball is a bore...