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Word: burghers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indulgent Affection. Jordaens scorned Van Dyck's elegancies. In contrast to Rubens, he looked at the roistering pleasures of a good burgher's family life without feeling any need to translate them into the realm of gods, goddesses or nymphs. He was more interested in the play of light than Rubens ever was, and his studies of faces, with that unexpected illumination that candlelight can bring, are something that Rubens never tried nor achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: A Particularity of Flesh | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...same time, however, Cocteau seems to have known in the marrow of his Paris-burgher bones that the only successful French Revolution was that which had been conducted by the bourgeois, not against them. Although he liked to shock and astonish them on his own terms, he was always careful not to offend or challenge on their terms. Astutely, he wrote: "I know to what extent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Artist Was the Medium | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

Baritone Tom Weber, who looks more like a burgher-meister than a peasant, sings freely and clearly although without much range of emotion. Spring Fairbank sings the soprano in both cantatas smoothly and precisely. She is especially fine in the Coffee Cantata, which has a real plot, and a ridiculous one at that; Miss Fairbank milks almost as many laughs from her coffee aria as Richard Fermin does later from the Beatles. James Jones as Schlendrian has a wonderful voice, but his over-acting was almost painful by the time the cantata ended...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Bach and the Beatles | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...sensational but top-secret Kremlin speech that demolished Stalin, Bell was in Moscow and got wind of it. During two tours of duty in Bonn, he covered the Berlin Wall, the 1956 Hungarian uprising, and matters as disparate as what Chancellor Adenauer was thinking and what the German burgher was eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Feb. 4, 1966 | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

Glinting Images. Hesse's hero is obviously himself: the son of a devout and prosperous burgher who in childhood encounters a strange companion named Max Demian. Demian is a boy, but he has "the face of a man, superior and purposeful, lucid and calm, with knowing eyes. Yet the face had something feminine about it too, and was somehow a thousand years old. He was different, like an animal or a spirit or a picture, unimaginably different from the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A God Within | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

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