Word: burgher
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...professed to be a happy burgher and well content with his lot. But at other times he seemed like a restless man. He said: "We all got just a certain number of hours to live ... I don't understand why people waste time." Frank Costello, who had once lusted for wealth, lusted for respectability. He was steadily thwarted. He had lived by stealth and secrecy, had avoided newsmen like the plague, but his power and influence had brought him torrents of publicity...
...along on several of Brahms's famed walks in the Vienna woods. Schnabel loves to debunk the pressagent story that Brahms discovered him at his first recital, and praised his genius: "I fully expect to read some day that I played billiards with Mozart." Adds Schnabel, with a burgher's chuckle: "The only thing Brahms ever said to me was 'Are you hungry, boy?' before we started eating, and 'Have you had enough?' when we finished...
Many a good burgher had been stuck up with a souvenir pistol from Germany...
Rembrandt (1606-69), less interested in objective accuracy and less patient, enclosed the general looks of things with parenthetical stabs of his pen, gave them loose cloaks of broadly brushed shadow. His eight sketches at the Metropolitan (a woman hanging from a gibbet, a burgher sitting on a step, etc.) described not only what he saw but what he felt about...
...ever read and who are really very little developed, but yearn to dress more fashionably, to wear hats, even smoking jackets, and to use eau de cologne. . . . But by themselves and from inside themselves they are not cultured. Such appears to me to be the culture of the German burgher or kulak. This is a purely external culture, an empty one, not grasping the depths of the human soul...