Word: bourgeoise
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They met the challenge forthrightly, One of the professor of English, a women, said with a smile: "We can learn from the students, especially their political attitudes, because we are much conditioned by our bourgeois background."
Therefore they, who had long been "much conditioned by their bourgeois background," were required, during and after the Cultural Revolution, to study Marxism, Leninism, and Mao Tse-tung Thought. How irrelevant and what a bore, some of them at first supposed. But they found that, even after only a first...
Slowly, However, we do gain compassion. The Daniel who narrates the book is a married Columbia graduate student, guilt-ridden, sick of his bourgeois complacency; his tensions surface in offbeat sexual acts and professional inertia. His sister feels she keeps the political flame of the Isaacsons alive by participating in...
As Daniel pens the last pages of his record, student radicals close down the Butler Library. An all-encompassing resolution is ever reached, but we have more than a clue to Daniel`s purpose. He has already stated that his sister died "of a failure of analysis". Daniel`s book...
Improvisations. After 1949, as part of Mao Tse-tung's revival of folk arts, acrobatic troupes were newly subsidized all over China. Today almost every one of China's 18 provinces and each big city has its company in keeping with Mao's cultural exhortations: "Let one...