Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democratic Tic. The Bavarian revolution that succeeded World War I had its own puzzles. Schoenberner was not one of the literati who suddenly felt a new and urgent need to join the proletariat. Nor did he have much respect for the Democratic Party, whose platform, he thought, matched the names of two of its prominent leaders, Rindskopf and Kalbskopf (Oxhead and Calfshead). The general confusion was epitomized by a Munich professor who was called before a huge audience to give the real lowdown on the problems of German reconstruction. Owing to a nervous tic, this professor always broke into...
Marriage of Heaven & Hell. The Princess with the Golden Hair is a quiet but ambitious attempt to anatomize, through the narrator's contrasted affairs with two women, the U.S. middle class and the U.S. proletariat. The bourgeois wife, Imogen, is a convincing redigestion, in contemporary terms, of the kind of paralytic romanticism which Flaubert raged at (and suffered from). The proletarian taxi-dancer, Anna, is more vivid and engaging, and the glimpses into her world-a world of incidents like the Polish boarder's "doing his business and wrapping it up in paper" for Anna to pick...
Democracy in Germany, the directive hastened to point out, is only a tactical maneuver in the fight for the strategic objective: "the dictatorship of the proletariat." To that end some "retreats, zigzags, and marking time" would be necessary...
British rules of speech have retained some influence in the U.S., Mencken admits. But whereas most Briticisms rarely penetrate below U.S. "levels of cultural pretentions," Americanisms subversively invade the British proletariat via movies, magazines and comic-strips, then worm their insidious way up into the best society...
...election that was to carry the Nazis to power the German Communist Party polled 5,970,833 votes. The Nazis fought Communism with the weapons of Communism. To oppose the Communist troops (Red Front Fighters), the Nazis used the Brown Shirts. In place of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Nazis offered the dictatorship of the Nazi Party. In place of Bolshevism's scapegoat, the bourgeois, the Nazis offered the Jew. In place of internationalism, the Nazis offered fanatical German nationalism. In place of one dominating class (the proletariat), the Nazis offered the people (Volk...