Word: bourgeoises
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The history of modernism is suffused with cults of artistic ego and rampant "originality" -- especially Surrealism, the movement Magritte was linked to. But he made a virtue of anonymity, disappearing behind the work like one of the partly vanishing, ambiguous figures in his own paintings. Apart from a short stay...
He explains that the humanities, including music, "tend to require a bourgeois background of students. Minority students will find it less of a difficulty to develop an interest in law or medicine."
There's no guarantee the Kaus' forced Civic Liberalism will be any more successful than the class-blind Pruit-lgoe apartment complex. Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe built this vast concrete block, devoid of the tenements' decaying wood and the bourgeois curves, angles and bay windows. But people resented...
If Anna-Louise is the nineties--practical, down-to-earth, good-humored-then Stephanie exemplifies the eighties. A "French babe" whom Tyler describes as "a rich girl from a mighty bourgeois family," Stephanie is self-centered, spoiled and materialistic. She cares more about her final destination that about the road...
A. When I consider my life as a whole, it has been very adventurous. But it was not because I am an adventurer. I am a very calm and order-loving person, with a bourgeois background. I like things to be constant. In this respect I am even a little...