The aim was not to design monuments, but "machines" for living and working, mass-produced for mass society.
The jargon flowed on and on: alienation from the working masses, living in an ivory tower, bourgeois ways.
The "street" in essence means the unions, which have a long history of mobilizing the working masses against pension reform and have scheduled a national strike for May 13.
Your editorial "Crumbs for Africa" doesn't acknowledge where the money President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair are giving away comes from: the working masses.
"It's still the Langston Hughes of the democratic voice, conversational voice, voice of working masses that everyone loves in his poetry.
Justly or not, it's her glamorously tormented self-portraits, not his invocations of the working masses, that have earned a place in pop culture.
In the press, Party leaders called on those in rotation to strengthen their attachment to their grass roots, i.e., the working masses, rather than yearning for the capital.
MANY out-of-towners still appear to be steering clear of New York -- hotel vacancies remain up, theater attendance down -- but what about those who have no choice, the stalwart, working masses who must venture there every day?
Regarding the mice who kept him awake one night, Kafka sees them as "an oppressed proletarian people" (the prototype, it would seem, for the working masses of his final story, "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk").
