Word: bourgeoise
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Sir: You say: "The tone of these youthful voices-strident and self-confident, proud and often contemptuous-naturally grates on the ears of their elders.'' Not this elder. These courageous young men and women are in existential revolt against the WASP suburbanite society, whether its members style themselves...
Such narrow horizons shape the French workers' attitudes toward politics. Most workers are largely apolitical, openly cynical, and mistrustful of all shades of politicians and parties. The feeling is not entirely unjustified, since in the past France's established parties have indeed done little for the worker. Such...
When the students first took to the barricades last month, the affair seemed as remote to the workers as almost everything else that happens in the "other Paris" of the bourgeois world. But as the violence grew, the workers-often ahead of their own union leaders-sensed an opportunity to...
Yet at least once this year, the lbis was treated as ignominiously as a common pigeon, stolen from the 'Poonies only to be casually reclaimed in broad daylight, without a single shot being fired, as it sat, unguarded, in the bourgeois sedan in a Plympton Street parking lot. Though amazingly...
On the other hand, a narrow victory might not be enough to re-establish his authority. And anti-De Gaulle feelings, now largely the province of the liberal, the youthful, and the workingman, could spread in startling ways. The angry days of May have probably loosed all the diverse special...