Word: proletarianizing
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...Bohrod did the Governor Knight cover for the May 30 issue. Shahn, who started out as a lithographer, first won success with his series of beautiful but bitter watercolors protesting the 1927 execution of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. As a young "social realist," he had a reputation for proletarian-protest painting; but a 25-year retrospective showing of his works early this year in Manhattan made clear that time had mellowed his work as well as himself. Today, he is regarded as one of the world's top contemporary painters...
...House of Commons." Society patrons responded with a hoarse cheer so blatant that Marlene, entering in a bit of gossamer so diaphanous that Britain's press fears to publish photos of it, was scarcely noticed. Later, Battling Bessie and Marlene chatted cozily. With no apologies for her proletarian garb, Bessie said: "I just had time to wash my face...
...Londoners, the dock strike was a nagging labor problem. To the visiting Russian rowers, it was a singular embarrassment. They could hardly disapprove of such a proletarian maneuver, but there they stood on the shore with their sweeps in their hands, and there were their shells on the deck of the strikebound Soviet freighter Strelna. The regatta at Henley, where they had swept the river only the year before, was only a week away. How could they practice? They were up the Thames, as it were, with a useless set of paddles...
...everything else about the boy. He might have disapproved even more had he known that Valery's real wish was to become an American pilot. As a teen-ager in Stalingrad, and later in the East zone of Berlin, Valery was as devoutly pro-American as his non-proletarian father was proCommunist. He seized every opportunity to tune in secretly to broadcasts of the Voice of America and the BBC, pored over contraband U.S.-history books, and whirled in delight to the downbeat of U.S. jazz and "boogy-voogy" crying '"Ooo, San Looey" as he gyrated...
...world or their own people. There is no third path. If somebody thinks a nation can achieve revolutionary victory alone without unity and assistance from the forces of world revolution, [or] after its victorious revolution stay aloof from the animosity between World Revolution and counterrevolutionaries, then he is against proletarian Internationalism and has fallen into the mire of Nationalism...