Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan's vitality and insistence be constantly in our minds." Here those who are familiar with Japan will think of one great lack in Dr. Eckstein's book. His acquaintance with the Japanese is largely confined to the urban middle and upper classes. Of the tremendous proletariat he knows and says little. Yet it is in these masses, if they are helped to liberal education, that the best hope probably lies. Readers who wish to learn something of what Dr. Eckstein, for all his great usefulness, is not equipped to tell, are referred to John F. Embree...
Said the usually staid Morning Post: "Sir Stafford Cripps, known abroad as Sir Scrapps, among his friends as Scrappy, among his opponents as Stiffy, and among an ungrateful proletariat as Gripes, is an embryo-dictator...
...robust and honest not to know the chances against its taking a Christian form. It is "doubtful that the atrocious deception of our people would let them return at first to the dogmas of our faith." They may accept rather what they think is a dictatorship of the proletariat, not knowing until later that any dictatorship is in the end a dictatorship of bureaucrats and police. Bernanos evidently prefers even this prospect to a clerical Fascism. Facing it, he maintains that "we Christians hold ourselves responsible for human liberty...
...order had (in the Bolshevik phrase) been thrown on "the garbage heap of history." Russia of the Tsars, of Byzantine ritual, of mad monks and Cossack whips, Russia of fatalistic chaos and fatalistic inaction, was now to be kneaded with the butts of rifles into the Russia of the proletariat, of modern industry, of determined socialistic dictatorship. The time was November 1917, Year One of the Russian Revolution...
...advantages of being a member of "Cambridge's only breakfast table daily, serving the public 24 hours a day," are manifold. As a News candidate, you will find out what makes the University tick and will gain entrance to places ordinarily barred--ahem--from the student proletariat...