Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most offensive generalizations come at the expense of the students. They make up the coddled proletariat in the mismanaged world of The American University. Adults have made too many concessions, for society does not even require that they be willing to learn. This permissiveness extends to the notion that both students and their teachers are "equal partners in education" or that both are "exploring together" and "learn from each other." Nonsense, replies Barzun--no undergraduate has anything valuable to say to a Ph.D. about his chosen field which he has not heard already. Though many students are bright, he concedes...
...bass drum yet!). This music is very different from, and inferior to, the concentrated, strictly organized, but striking sound of early black rock and roll of the Chuck Berry-Fats Domino-Little Richard variety--a sound which had its greatest impact among the swaggering, brash young British proletariat. When the white working classes in America finally shake off their acquiescence and become rebels against society I will expect to hear them produce rock to equal British rock. Till then we must see to it that music masquerading as rock and roll does not come to dominate the American scene...
...problems of the Israeli Arabs are both economic and social, for in neither respect are they well-integrated into the rest of the population. According to Eisenstadt, they are divided into three sectors: the farmers and landowners, who, "if they started out with land, have done well," the "agricultural proletariat" of the villages, who have no trouble finding jobs in their own communities but are not well-to-do and are "not in a good situation," and the professionals. Members of the last group who find positions within Arab communities do very well, but sometimes the Arab intelligentsia...
...book Down and Out in Paris and London records in an oral-tactile way what it was like to be a dish washer, a tramp and a louse-ridden outsider. In The Road to Wigan Pier, he experienced the squalor of hopelessness while his pink pals were pitying the proletariat. At the end of his life, when he was dying of TB, he characteristically decided to treat it on a fog-swept island off Scotland's west coast. Evelyn Waugh visited him on his deathbed, and the reactionary Catholic gourmet saw a rare quality in the socialist agnostic puritan...
...would have several things in common with today's Christian church and vice versa. "Both Christianity and Communism have demythologized themselves eschatologically," the bishop said. "Christians no longer believe in a Second Coming, And the Communists have given up the theory that the victory of the proletariat is inevitable. The church is showing an interest in the material order of things, and Marxists now say the spirit is important...