Word: burgher
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...None of the Disney gruel here. Second greatest soundtrack to Days of Heaven. Some filmic dryasdusts dredge up the 1914 seven hour version with Belgian director Lionel Von Rennselaeaer's lighthearted experiments in figure/ground confusion done on highly explosive nitrate stock, but the lead was played by a stolid burgher whose sword work looked something like Boog Powell trying to bunt. Flynn, the great rakehell, leaves no doubt that he knew how to rustle Maid Marian's bustle and no one could accuse his progeny of lacking cojones--witness Sean Flynn's disappearing into the Cambodian jungle with a moped...
...descriptions of Mardi Gras are fascinating, prompting one to try to envision the scene, and aided by photographs, the task is easier. But to imagine the New Orleans burgher, dressed in the black tuxedo, drink in hand, speaking out in favor of white-minority rule in South Africa, and before that, hearing the blond-haired fellow referring to the black men dressed in slave garb as monkeys, is much more difficult for me, as I sit in my Winthrop House room, isolated from the careless ways of the very rich, as well as the desperate struggles of the very poor...
...ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations may be brought to it." Miss Stevens is at her best describing the physical and intellectual ventures of her father - the failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form, as an honorable 19th century fig ure who believed that there was some thing disreputable about a poet who did not earn his own living. It is only upon examination of the spark gap of fact into idea, or material into metaphor that the author...
...bitter recluse who lost a son (in World War I) and a daughter, and until his death in 1936 retreated more and more into the confines of his Sussex home, "a grey stone, lichened house-A.D. 1654 over the door." But there was also Kipling the solid burgher of his middle years, who married an American woman and settled down as a country gentleman for four years in Brattleboro, Vt., who became a friend of Cecil Rhodes and the enemy of every Liberal Member of Parliament, regularly depicted in Kipling stories as grossly fat, loose-lipped and emitting sprays...
...escape the tumult, many government officials and businessmen did not bother to come to work. West German President Gustav Heinemann loaded several bundles of documents in his car and drove off to his country house. When one Bonn burgher called information to get the emergency number of the municipal hospital, the answer was a gale of shrieking laughter...