Word: unproletarian
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...comrades: "Let Orozco draw a strong cartoon; Siqueiros was arrested." With the death of Orozco in 1949 and then Diego Rivera in 1958, Siqueiros at 63 is today the sole survivor of the Big Three. Living quietly in his Mexico City mansion with his wife Angelica, downing highballs of unproletarian Scotch (at $18 a fifth), Siqueiros has been turning out portraits at top prices, putting up new murals in hospitals, generally enjoying his reputation as a type muy simpático. But last week it was like old times again...
...bureaucracy, delivers cautiously hedged speeches, and keeps easy control of his temper. "I have never seen Erich pray, tremble or curse," says a fellow Socialist. Evenings he sips wine with cronies and plays skat, a German pub card game. His chauffeur-driven Mercedes fetches him to work at an unproletarian midmorning hour. A solid and comfortable householder type, if no intellectual giant, Ollenhauer pitches his appeal as a safe sort of Socialist both to Germany's middle-class voters and to workers who now have a lot more to lose than their chains...
Early Career. Bulganin was born in the old Volga city of Nizhni Novgorod (now Gorky). His comparatively well-off family paid for him to go to school, though his official biography now disguises his unproletarian origin. Bulganin. aged 22, joined the party as an organizer a few crucial months before the Revolution, is thus one of the few old Bolsheviks still in high places. Assigned to the dread CHEKA during the bloody civil war. he showed so much efficiency in jailing and executing the "People's enemies." and in putting down a workers' revolt in his old home...
...field in which he would make his own mark. In 20 years he had held 15 major appointive jobs* in the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, but he had nev er been elected to any office. He is a doctrinaire New Dealer, but has a name, background and manner as unproletarian as Franklin Roosevelt...
People began trailing in at around 8:15. One of the local wheels strode in, looked around, and asked, "Where are the masses?" Most of the listeners were in their middle thirties, well dressed, and decidedly unproletarian. The old men talked of poor health and committing suicide. "Well," said one wearily, "when the depression comes . . ." "Yeah," his neighbor replied, "It'll come...