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Old Scum might seem more engaging and colorful if he were not so familiar: another in a long line of romantics who disdain the bourgeois "scramble for outside things like money or status," a lesser descendant of that definitive rogue-genius Gulley Jimson, hero of Joyce Gary's The...
WHY? WHY DID Mario Cuomo offer up 400 exhaustive and, at times, exhausting pages chronicling his ascension to the governorship of New York State? Political books are rarely written merely to enrich the intellectual content of bourgeois existence. Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) did not churn out A New...
Radcliffe in the thirties was thought of as something of a poor relation by the other women's colleges. The chic girls went to Vassar, the intellectuals to Bryn Mawr, and the comfortably placed bourgeois types to Wellesley and Smith. At least that was the way it seemed to us...
The flag incident will help the Spartacus League in their attempt to represent a political alternative. They do not support Republicans or Democrats or the Progressive Labor Party or any other practitioner of "bourgeois politics." The difference between the Sparts and other political organizations is that while others work for...
Late in the book a parallel is developed between Carll and Jessie's father, an oldtime Communist who once left his family for two years on party orders and who now spends his time grumbling about his wife's bourgeois taste in furniture. The coincidence of husband and...