Word: burgerlich
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...class, they have even lost their ability to breed. "A virgin to both sexes" is a confessional phrase used more than once, wryly but without regret, by his heroes. Some of them still have money -- old, of course, because latching on to new money would require the burgerlich rapacity that their great-grandparents successfully hid. If they have professions, they are likely to be lawyers, ineffectual but tolerated in the old firms because their names are those of dead founding partners. But their only consistent strengths are snobbery and a watery kind of good taste...
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