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The thematic similarities are striking. Charles, the elderly owner of a consistently expanding watchmaking firm, finds himself suddenly filled with revulsion at his lifelong impulse to prosperity and bourgeois respectability. Much to the dismay of his still business-minded son, he disappears from home and takes up secluded residence with...
Fiedler's presentation (which has also appeared to have some impact in Playboy) was an important one, because it captured the main current of the last decade's apocalyptic cultural hopes. There were so many mass culture possibilities being opened that traditional authorities didn't bother to discriminate the sludge...
Bordered by quietly elegant homes and supported by a highly exclusive membership, the West Side Tennis Club of Forest Hills, N.Y., is a bastion of bourgeois gentility. Last week its manicured grounds were savaged by an intruder from the socialist East, a lank-haired and slightly mad lieutenant of the...
A lot of this was anticipated in The Shape of Things to Come, where H.G. Wells envisioned that out of a military apocalypse, somewhere in the world, hidden during the period of tribulation, would emerge a freemasonry of scientists, engineers and technicians who would create a new rule of efficiency...
Now some of this is O.K., because middle-class democracy meant freedom for the middle classes but not for the lower classes. And it meant the destruction of the culture of the upper classes. So that from top to bottom, there's a kind of revulsion against middleclass, bourgeois...