Word: bourgeoise
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čWhy did the Russians invade Czechoslovakia? If the Moscow newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya is to be believed, it was mostly because they could no longer abide the freedom that Alexander Dubček had granted the Czech press. "The reintroduction of bourgeois press freedom led to the most destructive consequences...
The cause of Barrault's dismissal was his role in last May's student riots. During the demonstrations, anarchist rebels from the Sorbonne "liberated" the Odéon and turned it into a discussion hall. They also destroyed 50% of the sets, ripped up red velvet seats and...
This summer, marking the centenary of Vuillard's birth, Paris' Musée de L'Orangerie has mounted a retrospective of his works (see color opposite), which are displayed along with those of his brother-in-law and lifelong friend, Ker-Xavier Roussel. Both were contributors to...
Oddly enough, Packard, who has made his life's work the shattering of middle-class shibboleths, seeks a solution to the problem in an almost belligerently bourgeois codification of behavior. It is his version of situation ethics. Three elements should be present, he says, before society bestows its approval...
Remember the great debate in 1959, when Nilcita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon slugged it out over the dishwashers at a Moscow exhibition? Last week the ex-Premier, tanned and much trimmer at 74, ambled through another kitchenware show, Moscow's International Household and Services Equipment Fair. With Wife Nina...