Word: proletariats
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...pain. Last week, in honor of what would have been her 95th birthday-she died in 1945 -the East Berlin Academy of the Arts had on view 106 of her works, all but a few in stark black and white. Since she had spoken so lovingly of the proletariat, the Communists have tried to make much of her, but their stern and sterile ideology would hardly have found comfort in Köthe Kollwitz' emotional utopianism. She was a woman who took every quiver of human agony upon herself, and then transferred it to paper again and again...
...inner en Schweinehnnd (cowardice) by taking a slash with aplomb. Habitual flinchers are booted out of the fraternity. ''This is the way an elite has to be formed." explains one student at the University of Munich. He sees fraternities as a splendid antidote to the rootless "academic proletariat" at West German universities, "those unaffiliated students who behave like juvenile delinquents...
...rabble-rousing labor leader, Brazil's João ("Jango") Goulart never hesitated to make political time with anticapitalist proclamations. "My only commitments are to the proletariat," he once said. As an opportunistic Vice President under Jânio Quadros, he toured Red China, heaping praise on Mao Tse-tung's regime as "an example that shows how people can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters." Last week Goulart, now Pres ident of Latin America's biggest and most important nation, arrived in Washington for a seven-day visit...
...Side Story goes wildly, insufferably wrong when it insists that society is entirely guilty, that the teen-age hoodlums are ultimately innocent. Worse yet, the picture becomes wildly, immorally sentimental when it attempts the apotheosis of alley rats, broadly suggesting that they are the Patrick Henrys of the urban proletariat...
...between 1941 and 1945 that the loyal proletariat fought the Revolution," or, "No, we did not fight internal forces so much as the imperialistic Nazi invaders," he replied to my questions, all the time looking not at me but around me at the secretary who had stationed herself at the door and seemed to be giving him signals of some sort. When I asked him whether there hadn't been forces other than the Partisans fighting the Nazis, he appeared rather nervous and hurried...