Word: bourgeoise
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All three were foreigners, and all said they were journalists. One was a British photographer, George Andrew Roth, who had often worked on stories with the Bolivian army; he was released. The second was a mediocre Argentine painter named Giro Roberto Bustos, who belonged to the Communist Party but considered...
Examinations will be abolished as bourgeois and a feudal hangover. Henceforth advancement will not necessarily be to the smart but to the "ideologically strong," who will be allowed to jump a grade or two and graduate early. The whole educational system will be speeded up; university will be shortened by...
The Victorian age can now be seen as an outburst of bourgeois baroque-extravagant in form, larger than life, gaudy, ridiculous, but above all productive and resolutely confident. No man better personified this outburst than Explorer Richard Burton,* the magnifico of satanic mien who prowled through unmapped regions like a...
William Randolph Hirsch is really three staffers on Monocle, a New York humor magazine-Marvin Kitman, Victor Navasky and Richard Lingeman. Their book combines a spoof of self-help manuals on how to be thin, agile and potent with a parody of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which after...
The performance may not have been exactly what Picasso had in mind, but the audience of 600 found it stimulating, clapped loudly after every scene. As for a much-publicized urination scene -one reason why the mayor of St. Tropez had prohibited the performance in his town-it was, all...