Word: proletarian
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...their demands are not without reason, even if they lack proletarian appeal. Of course writers deserve a cut of whatever profits are made in streaming video. Of course it’s outrageous that they receive only one third of a cent per dollar of royalties—they’re certainly justified in asking for two thirds of a cent. And I do understand that this is a “matter of survival” for the WGA’s less famous members, whose condition is so similar to my own: untalented, unemployed, and unpaid...
...EastEnders and the rest of the BBC's most popular output; the more esoteric BBC2; the commercial network ITV; and Channel 4, then only four years old and set up to break the duopoly of the BBC and ITV. The greatest challenge to EastEnders' popularity came in the proletarian form of ITV's long-running soap Coronation Street...
...Pedro, the proletarian man of honor, usually bears injustice bravely. Sometimes he volunteers for public censure, taking the rap for a crime of passion his sister committed in Las Islas Marias. Sometimes he's railroaded into jail by a scheming rival, as in Nosotros los pobres...! Only rarely, as in The Woman I Lost, does he take up arms against the corrupting power. On the run for an accidental killing the police think is murder, he becomes a Robin Hood of the countryside, reappropriating the money the landowners have stolen from the people...
...great masters of Europe. Why not preserve the records and donate them to the Music Society?'' ''You live in the past,'' he said. ''Don't you know that our Great Leader has said that Western music of any kind is decadent? We are going to compose our own proletarian music. As for the Music Society, it's disbanded.'' I was so tired that I could hardly stand. I asked the teacher for permission to rest. ''You may go to your daughter's room. She is an independent filmworker earning a salary. Her room is not included in our revolutionary action...
...your way of thinking. You will be allowed enough clothing and basic furniture to carry on a normal life, but you won't be allowed to maintain a standard of living above that of the average worker.'' Before he left, he told me, ''It's the objective of the proletarian revolution to form a classless society, where no one is above anyone else.'' After living in Communist China for 17 years, I knew that such a society was only a dream because those who seized power would invariably become the new ruling class. Even this very junior official...