Word: proletariat
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...American Crash is a delight to behold and it’s far from over.” Yet that downturn—along with all of the other shocks and recessions that have periodically plagued American economic history—ultimately failed to break the proletariat from its chains...
...anything like that. You’ve got to find places like that where you can buy it and then spread it.” The aisles were packed with music fans of all genres. Pierced, grimy punks stood next to snarky, slack-eyed hipsters with proletariat caps and t-shirts with ironic slogans. One of these half-boasted, “I <3’d Ben Folds Before He Sucked.”While Viglione bobbed, jester-like, amidst shoppers and fans, Palmer sat in silence behind the counter amid a crowd of quiet onlookers. A flower nestled...
Luckily, the growth of the craft-beer industry has spurred the proletariat-friendly beer tour. Sure, there are downsides to brewery-touring: because barley and hops ship well, breweries are traditionally far from pastoral farms and close to ugly, industrial areas, and because artisanal-beer makers tend to be hippies, you're going to hear a lot of Grateful Dead. But there are some major upsides: you can visit breweries, unlike wineries, right in major cities; you're finished admiring the operations in 10 minutes; and instead of sipping and spitting in uptight tasting rooms, you down samples in attached...
...have noticed: There are some people on this campus who like to complain. They whine, they cry, they spam the open lists; in every discussion, Lacoste-sporting Harvard undergraduates form up into a bourgeois proletariat, for whom angry emails have replaced manifestos. They are defiantly, eternally dissatisfied—it doesn’t matter why—and many spend their hours insisting upon an urgent need for some type of “change”; though, again, they never take the unattractive step of defining what that change means. It’s like a Barack Obama...
...people getting by on a stage designer's income. Except for the lucky few at the top, the arts do not pay. And it doesn't help that every year thousands of arts graduates tumble out of American universities and into the ranks of the city's cultural proletariat - all those actor-waiters and artist-housepainters...