Word: unproletarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Showing up in Edwardian splendor, the moustached Souvanna Phouma sported a pearl stickpin, Homburg, and carved Laotian walking stick. He received a hug and kiss from Half Brother Souphanouvong, himself resplendent in a most unproletarian two-button suit with a bigger pearl stickpin. Paunchy Soldier Phoumi thought it more appropriate to wear combat fatigues. The trio conferred for an hour, broke for box lunches and Scotch airlifted in from Vientiane...
...Whitney Tippett, 54, goaded on her galloping troika to yells of "Molodets!" (Attagirl!) from the Muscovites lining the rail. The handsome owner of Virginia's $500,000 Llangollen stables, which she got from John Hay Whitney, the first of her four husbands, was in Russia on a very unproletarian job: to advise the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture on how to improve its entries in the sport of kings. "Horses," said Liz, "need no interpreters...
...useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of Soviet writers privately turn out poems about lovemaking, maladjustment, and other concerns of the soul neglected by seven-year plans. They call such extracurricular outpourings "poetry for the desk drawer," because it is unproletarian and unpublishable. Yet one of the most revealing aspects of Russian evolution since Stalin has been the growth of the desk drawer...