Word: proletariats
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...Heaven, made in 1975 but just recently released in the U.S., is, therefore, certainly an event of great interest. Unfortunately the film will be most interesting to that group with which Fassbinder sympathizes least (the radical chic) and will not attract that group which he addresses most (the proletariat which maintains a society that treats it injustly...
...recording angel of the American proletariat in the early 20th century was all but forgotten when he died in penury in 1940. He was a mild, slender, clerkish-looking and almost incredibly tenacious man named Lewis Hine. Lugging his clumsy 5-by-7 camera into the factories and mines and sweatshops of America, from the immigrant queues of Ellis Island to the cotton mills of North Carolina, Hine did for the laboring poor of his country what Henry Mayhew had done for London workers in the earlier years of Queen Victoria's reign. He identified a class and made...
Apparently under Chiang Ch'ing's influence, Mao had proclaimed that all plays portraying "ghosts" or "emperors and princes, generals and ministers, gifted scholars and beauties" should be banned. Instead, there should be idealization of the proletariat. Thus Chiang Ch'ing had started during the Cultural Revolution to build a new "proletarian " art from scratch. One of her successes was the showy Red Detachment of Women-performed for President Nixon in Peking in 1972. She recounts the difficulties she had in staging this theatrical extravaganza...
...Germany in 1953 because he wanted to live in a Communist-run state. Since then he has become an outspoken critic of what he regards as East Berlin's distortion of Marxism, and accuses the East German government of being "a dictatorship, but not a dictatorship of the proletariat...
...tweed jackets and English pipes stuck out like sore thumbs as the Dartmouthians and affiliated imports made it clear that this night, if no other, belonged to the proletariat...