Word: proletarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nose and inspires him, while he buttons his tunic, to relate to the officers of his staff an impolite story which is one of the most consummate pieces of pantomime that has ever enriched the cinema. He starts down to breakfast, falls in love with a charming proletarian whom he meets in the hall, lets the Princess to whom he is engaged marry her brother's tutor. To Franz Molnar, author, $50,000 was paid for screen rights - a graceful benevolence, since Molnar could not by any chance detect in the cinema so much as a plagiarism...
This one-sided, material emphasis in Russian education will be preserved as long as the present dearth of technical knowledge blights her industrial development. But the day will come when inquiring spirits may question the economical and political bases of the system which nourished them. Then the proletarian whose passionate support made the Bolsheviki masters of Russia, and whose ranks supply the brain and brawn of the movement, may like Romulus and Remus, abandon the wolf who sucked them...
...latest decree of the Soviet Government of Russia, Which eliminates nearly one hundred thousand students of non-proletarian origin from high schools and colleges, seems to be an unfortunate continuation of the Communist policy of destroying the bourgeois class. In aiming to provide educational facilities for students in the lower walks of life, the Soviet authorities are working with a beneficent intent, but in persisting in elevating one class at the expense of another, their wisdom is more than doubtful. The Communists have apparently discovered, however, that one of the best ways to keep opponents out of power...
...same time, this policy of class discrimination seems likely to result in the formation of an endless cycle; if the proletarian is forcibly educated, and the bourgeois is kept from education, it will be but a short time until the situation is reversed, and each is in the other's shoes, which will result in no appreciable gain to the state as a whole...
Many "schools" were represented-symbolists, acmeists, futurists, centrifugalists, imaginists, Moscow Parnassians, poets proletarian, poets peasant, neoromantic, non -classic, constructive, aimless poets, nichevoki poets, poets aloof, high-brow and low-brow and poets independent...