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It is a political cliche that "the Frenchman carries his heart on the left but his wallet on the right." Traditionally, many bourgeois vote left or at least threaten to do so as a protest. However, they quickly return to the center or right if it appears that a leftist...
1) Lenin is talking about revolutionaries who are building a united working class movement of all races, men and women, allied with other forces to smash the bourgeois state and set up workers rule. Therefore he did not pose patience and irony as substitutes for anger at oppression and building...
Andorra is a quiet, whitewashed country, small and seemingly guiltless. But Max Frisch's mythical principality (which bears a suspicious resemblance to the playwright's native Switzerland during the Second World War) is also bourgeois, complacent, chauvinistic, murderous. Sam Guckenheimer's production of Andorra tries to dramatize a Semite-as...
Hughes creates a real character, possibly to the detriment of some others in the play. The townspeople are given time to develop individual identities--they are much more than a mob--but often each is only a grotesque caricature, too easily contemptible. The point about these people, even as they...
Golden-Oldies. On ABC in recent months, a viewer could renew acquaintance with all kinds of golden-oldie situations. There was Kirk Douglas playing a worm turned psychopathic killer in Mousey; Robert Gulp as a bourgeois daddy forced to defend suburban hearth and home from a predatory adolescent gang in...