Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are worse offenses. One drunken college student once lurched at me at a party, yelling that I probably thought he was some lowly proletariat. Another, equally obnoxious, informed me, rather erroneously, that I would have to learn to live without maids. (My family has never hired a maid.) A political canvassing group I worked for refused to send me into a working class neighborhood, explaining that I would not be able to relate to the people, who (justifiably, they added) would hate...
...license because, he tuts, "I'm no jock!"). They know they are out of fashion and cheerfully debate their irrelevance, like dinosaurs analyzing their own bones. Most of them are moneyed, but they soon must admit to a crucial class distinction: between the aristocracy of the desired and the proletariat of the unloved. In short, they are very like the rest of us. Though his setting and dialogue are tres swank, writer-director Whit Stillman made Metropolitan for peanut shells, and with a cast of novice screen actors. Best of all, he compliments his viewers by respecting their intelligence. Moviegoers...
...nonsense." Sobchak belongs to the Interregional Group and is considered a radical, but a measured one. He argues that KGB leaders should be barred from political leadership and, perhaps tongue in cheek, that the party might have to be refused registration because it advocates a dictatorship (of the proletariat), which is illegal. But he has spoken up for Gorbachev, saying "Let's not hinder the efforts of this President who pursues a policy of democratic renewal...
...achievement and maintenance of the dictatorship of the proletariat is impossible without a party which is strong by reason of its iron discipline. But iron discipline in the Party is inconceivable without unity of will, without complete and absolute unity of action on the part of all members of the Party. This does not mean, of course, that the possibility of conflicts of opinion is thereby precluded....But after a conflict of opinion has been closed, after criticism has been exhausted and a decision arrived at, unity of will and unity of action of all Party members are the necessary...
...generation later came Bernie Cornfeld with his exhortation, "Do you sincerely want to be rich?" His company, Investors Overseas Services, specialized in mutual funds. "We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted. An IOS manager recalled the process in less exalted terms: "We bought stocks at $90, not because they were worth $90, but because we believed that tomorrow they would be at $120. When we went home nights, we just hoped the goddam company would still be there in the morning...