Word: kultured
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When we lived in a more culture heavy time, we had high culture and low culture--you know, the former was "kultur," and the latter was for the great rabbles who drove the Model...
...spirit was able to afford a great deal more than what we in Britain could. You had greater optimism." Fizzy pop culture, American style, seemed easygoing but a little wild too. Even these days, says Bonn's Christian Hoffmann, who has organized a club of Americaphiles, "here in Germany, Kultur is either folk songs sung around the campfire or Bach...
...feminist fascists, first of all, want gender purity. Women must shake off the ideologies and mores of masculine kultur. Secondly, they yearn for "A Place in the Sun," a separate but equal set of values for women. Women must be respected not just as equal persons, but simply and existentially for being women. Women must be represented and treated positively. Here, pornography is an obvious target. Ideally, men should look past a women's potential for a night of funzies, to the real qualities that make a woman a woman...
...dabbling beyond pop music simply stretched his dilettantism further than anyone else's, and the dissipated exile he played in The Man Who Fell to Earth sitting drunk at poolside in the film's final scene seemed his logical resting place. To at least one defender of high kultur writing in the New York Times Book Review last year, Bowie of all our entertainers most perfectly personified decadence...
...those banal people who believe that life is graded like a test, and that if one does one's homework, one will pass. He believes that his mythical titled parents are on watch and will claim him as their own once he passes the test of haute Kultur. He becomes a culture grind, slaving ardently at French cooking, memorizing the Almanack de Gotha, and mentally building a pyramid of ancient trivia...