Word: petit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans really need all of this advice? In any age, most of the interest in manners is casually voyeuristic rather than urgently practical. Manners are entertaining, inherently dramatic. Taken all together, they present a sort of shimmering petit-point likeness of a society. Especially now, in an era of broad transition, manners tend to be brittle and sparky?the friction of an older system being rubbed against by an abrasive future...
...Petit said it took him about two weeks to sell his letters. "Outside of Harvard, people are more likely to buy the letter," he said. "There's just something about the people here that makes them unwilling to buy it," he added...
...Petit has not made any money on the letter yet, but he said a "friend of a friend" of his made $9000 from...
Ionesco, of course, survived this estrangement from ideology. But beginning in 1968, with the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, he writes heavily in protest of the continual censorship of non-leftist artists by these "petit bourgeois leftist intellectuals who think they are revolutionaries." (He has also called them "Nazi intellectuals from the Sixteenth Arondissement," the wealthiest section of Paris where Sartre, Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Godard, Duras and others live.) In his book, Present Past, Past Present (1971) he notes: "We (in France) have a liberal press and a censorship by a literally authoritative opposition"--an opposition which until...
...Cuba, all five agreed, the party leads the Revolution and the church follows, dragging its feet with every step. The five Christians--one Methodist and four Presbyterians--saw the Catholic Church, with its displaced petit bourgeois following, as the most reactionary force left in Cuba. In particular, the Catholic Church and to some extent the entire Christian church, has acted as an enormous barrier to the liberation of Cuba's women...