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"The standard of intellectual debate in thiscountry is very low," Paglia said, She attributedthis standard to "sanctimonious, humanitarian,white, bourgeois, Victorian" attitudes of mostcontemporary humanities professors.
Given how well Wasserstein turns stereotypes inside out for the rest of her characters, it is disappointing that the daughter Tess is not more three-dimensional. Not only is Tess sick of England, she also wants to join the Lithuanian resistance; not only does she hate her mom's friends...
It has all the elements of a cozy little domestic comedy: a young woman depressed by her impending marriage to a perfect twit; her mother tensely determined that the bourgeois niceties of the occasion will be punctiliously observed; his mother glumly sorry to inflict her son on anyone; and descending...
On this campus, commitment to the pantheon of liberal causes may be the best means of expurgating the accumulated bourgeois guilt of a life led in suburbia and private high school.
At this bourgeois Christmas Eve gathering, social dancing -- the children and their parents together -- fosters this gentle civilizing process. Later the young protagonist Marie (Jessica Lynn Cohen) has a dream touched off by her naughty kid brother Fritz, who breaks her favorite new toy, a nutcracker. The dream starts as...