Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early last month the 21-ton motor junk Pak Tang (Whits Surge) cleared the tiny South China coastal island of Tarn Kung and headed for Changchow. Aboard the Pak Tang were 35 migrant laborers who since early April had been building a breakwater on Tarn Kung. These were the proletariat of the "New China"-men who under the Nationalists had been schoolteachers, civil servants, army and police officers. They were all together by prearrangement. They had complained to their bosses that the three smaller junks in which they usually traveled made them seasick. As some of the 35 lazed...
...regime. It taught Greek, Latin, French, German and English-but not a word of Russian. It was for a time the only university to offer sociology, the only place to teach economics that was not, as one professor puts it, "all class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat." Though cautious, many professors found ways to get around the Communists...
...France," Gomulka insisted that the kind of socialism he envisaged for Poland would in the long run "depend on the shaping of relations between the People's State and the church." Nevertheless the guiding power on Gomulka's road would be a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship of the proletariat. Inside the party he promised "full freedom of speech," but outside no party member (and presumably no private person) would have the right to express opinions which are out of harmony with party policy. This was a direct slap at his left supporters, whose "ideological confusion and revisionist tendencies...
...Merrie England. Although Lucky Jim took the Somerset Maugham Award, the grand "Old Party" of British letters loosed a choleric blast at the "whitecollar proletariat." Said old (83) Somerset Maugham: "They do not go to the university to acquire culture, but to get a job, and when they have got one. scamp it ... Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are scum...
...Novelist Brian Moore, many moral Waterloos are lost on the playing fields of Saint Michan's. It is not a progressive school; in fact it is the most distressful college that has been seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters. Dev may hand out "nippers" (cane on the hand) to his boys when they muck up a stanza from Shelley's To a Skylark or cannot explain the meaning of the Feast of Lupercal (a Roman fertility rite...