Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ball Bearings & Bureaucracy. It is Peking's dream that the communes, by using men as interchangeable parts, can convert China's peasantry into a part-time industrial proletariat. Already, according to Communist propagandists, the communes have established 1,000.000 new "factories." In fact, most of these factories are simple workshops or smelting furnaces. British Laborite M.P. Richard Grossman, one of the few Westerners to get a firsthand look at the communes, reported recently in London's New Statesman...
Almost every university student is subsidized, and the freshly graduated physicist can count on making at least $200 a month, plus another $100 for research, which is good money in the land of the proletariat. The government thinks nothing of building whole "science cities," equipped modern villas, clubs, cinemas and stadiums for scientists. When an American asked Physicist Vladimir Vekser how much his huge accelerator at Dubna cost, Veksler replied simply: "I don't know. To get the money, all we had to say was that you had one." If the Soviet scientist lives in an ideological cage...
Playwright Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky, a specialist in soul-probing among the urban proletariat, gave a group of Washington, D.C. actors a spasm of comment on his own class: "I've never known a good writer who observed anyone but himself. Megalomania is one of the prime requisites of being a good writer. Writers write out of different convictions. For example, Saroyan believes life is beautiful. That's a hard message to get over in a recession...
...Kansas' District Judge Beryl R. Johnson, speaking in Topeka: "As we climb the summit to confer, we must be mindful that the leaders who have described their dictatorship as a 'domination of the proletariat over the bourgeois,' have little regard for the sanctity of contract and do not believe that people have certain unalienable rights...
...Moscow knew that the Central Committee had held a decisive meeting, and the dutiful Deputies sensed that they were to be called on to ratify changes in what the comrades are pleased to call the vanguard of the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat. Moscow's talk centered around the premiership. Marshal Bulganin. the goateed. pleasantly plump palace commissar who had held the job for the last three years, had hesitated too long about supporting Khrushchev in last June's party leadership struggle and had received far fewer nominations than other Politburocrats for last month's Supreme Soviet...