Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year. CEOs make a good 200 times more than the average factory worker, even if you throw in the 3% raise that working stiffs gained in 1996. The pay disparity is five times greater than it was 30 years ago--and it's growing. You can almost hear the proletariat sharpening the guillotine...
...those leisure-class types (read second semester seniors without theses or blissful first-years without responsibilities) and have spent your days lolling around eating grapes, you're probably beginning to envy the busy, (over-)productive lifestyles of the proletariat (that's us hard-working types). If, however, you work (i.e. study) for a living, you must be fantasizing about how you could pull off that couch/grape thing (aah--spring break!). No matter how diligent a little beaver you are, with the Moon's nodes crossing the Pisces-Virgo axis, you're sure to be plotting moments of escape from drudgery...
...member of the proletariat, he learned something else: communism, the doctrine spreading among French industrial laborers and the Chinese students among them. In 1922 Deng joined the Communist Youth League set up by his expatriate countrymen. With a practical mind for detail, Deng helped duplicate and distribute the party newsletter, a job that earned him the mock degree of "doctor of mimeography." He earned his true credentials, however, in Moscow, where he studied Marxist-Leninist thought in 1926. Then it was back to a strife-torn China to propagate the faith. Deng's first assignment, as ideological watchdog...
...Perspective: Onward Spartacus Youth! This paper brings new meaning to out in left field. Way out.... Yes: the pseudo-intellectuals will be the vanguard of the proletariat. Oh, by the way, the war in Vietnam is over. Maybe an all-American activity like a softball game with the Peninsula staffers is all that's needed...
Free trade has spurred some class resentment too-an effect foreseen by Karl Marx, who predicted in 1848 that it would intensify strains between bourgeoisie and proletariat and thus speed a revolution. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 58% of those surveyed thought free-trade agreements were "mostly good" for U.S. corporations, but 51% thought the effects for workers were "mostly...