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Word: proletariat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe he has allowed himself to be coerced to the extent of supplying "interpretations" of his symphonies along political lines, and has thus left the question open as to whether he is depicting a picnic on the Volga, a Soviet tank factory, or the Triumphant Will of the Proletariat. He has shown by the immense amount of defense work he has undertaken in beseiged Moscow a very genuine love for Russia, and this love, I think, is the only objective idea he tries to get into his music...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 3/5/1942 | See Source »

...Financial systems are in continual flux, and don't survive anyhow, war or no war. Economic systems all depend on the balance of power between the holders of private property with their parasites and the really productive proletariat. Mr. Churchill and Mr. Anthony Eden are for private property and oligarchy. Stalin is for public property and democracy. So am I. Therefore, I cannot give you an unbiased opinion. All I can tell you is that when the war is over there will be wigs on the green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wigs on the Green | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Lenin built the proletariat into the wide U.S.S.R.; Hitler has already broken it by conquering its richest fields, taking many of its factories, conquering many of its people. Now Stalin must salvage the remains. But in the process he was more than likely to be broken himself. In his desperation he was like the servant in the legend who made another retreat to another Samarra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Appointment in Samara | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Remote Porthmerryn on the west coast was divided into Downalong (the fishing proletariat), Upalong (the swells) and the visiting Artists. People there seemed "rather fat and red," and Novelist Kennedy felt like a ghost. The Kennedys' maid from Downalong asked what Londoners thought about the war. " 'They're rather gloomy,' I told her. 'Gloomy? Why? They don't think that Hitler is going to win, do they? We don't think so Downalong, not for a single minute.' " Mrs. Aitken, "the doyenne of Upalong," said: "The news lately has been rather queer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fortitude | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Penny-a-Week. Because she loves the proletariat sincerely, Mrs. Strauss writes excitingly about it. She gives an intimate picture of how the British Labor Party works at its roots-the local Party-among the people who pay a penny a week to belong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New British Ruling Class | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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