Word: bourgeoises
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At one time Le Huan Street was a peaceful residential area close enough to the center of town so that the petits bourgeois who lived there could close up their downtown shops and come home for lunch and a nap. Now the street belongs to the dead and wounded. It...
The story revolves around the family, the drabness of their bourgeois lives, their struggles to make a respectable living, whether as doctor, hairdresser, or clerk. But it is essentially a love story. It celebrates the ever-deepening love of two old people, who have shared sorrow and happiness, and now...
CLARISSA HARLOWE embodies the bourgeois, prudish ideas of her family, and Lovelace is the monomanical assailant of the complacent power she wields by virtue of her chastity. Clarissa's latent and unlady-like fascination for Lovelace's sordid reputation damns any possibility of her innocence or heroism in Hardwick's...
There once was an age of reason, Harrington believes, in which Western civilization subscribed to the bourgeois standards - work hard, seek virtue - and it naturally condemned the psychopath as a madman (the Marquis de Sade) or an outlaw (Billy the Kid). But throughout most of this century, he argues, the...
French is the primary language not only of the educated but also of the major cities generally. When Castro spoke in Spanish to a crowd of 25,000 in Algiers, his speech was translated not into Arabic but into French. Boumedienne, who studied at Cairo's Al Azhar University...