Word: proletariat
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...disagree with James Allen Johnson's plea for a Harvard Square McDonald's (Opinion, March 9), invoking McDonald's "right" to be here. John-son unfairly accuses those who are anti-corporate-chain-monolith of being anti-proletariat. Those who fight McDonald's can care about the local working class...
...Defense Fund seems to paternalistically believe that "proletariat" shops are not suitable for the Square--in other words, these people don't want to eat fast food, so they want to stop you from doing so. The city also subscribes to this condescending logic, as a fast-food establishment hoping to set up shop in the Square must get a special permit for a restaurant. To get this permit, the establishment must prove that there is a "need" for the restaurant in the community...
Eyeglasses temper your coolness and make you less intimidating to the proletariat. Even if you've got perfect vision, consider getting some frames with non-prescription lenses for use in tragically hip campus parties, overwrought with intellectual angst...
...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...