Word: bourgeoise
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"He was a decent man and I'm sorry he's dead." Epps says, "but the only speech I sympathized with was the last one because it is only through developing this self-critical approach that the Negro will break out of the Conservative pattern." "Although I can't go...
I am half-convinced that Babe's heroine Pepper derives from Pippi Longstocking, the children's book tomboy who played hooky and didn't wash behind his ears. Neither Pepper nor her big brother Markie can find someone to love them, to make them believe it's worth growing up...
Touch's family is made up of dull, joke-cracking father Jack; shallow, bourgeois mother Ruth; precocious and sensitive son Tom (he's just won a national English contest); and maiden but equally sensitive aunt Emily. The action of the play centers around bringing Tom and Emily together, breaking down...
What really angered Mao Tse-tung was a secret letter the Russians had sent to most of the pro-Moscow and "neutral" Communist parties of the world. The Soviet slur accused Peking, among other sins, of using "ultra-revolutionary phrasemongering and petty bourgeois revolutionary activities to implement a chauvinistic, hegemonic...
The Movement, says Connolly, "began as a revolt against the bourgeois in France, the Victorians in England, the puritanism and materialism of America. The modern spirit was a combination of certain intellectual qualities inherited from the Enlightenment: lucidity, irony, skepticism, intellectual curiosity, combined with the impassioned intensity and enhanced sensibility...