Word: bourgeoise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But soon, political factions lined up alongside Crusader Merlin. The Moscowliners, claiming that the bill was all their own idea, ordered all left-wingers to vote against "a typical plague of bourgeois society." The Communists found allies in their old adversaries the Christian Democrats. "We can't afford," said...
Adenauer lives quietly in a white, comfortable house amid the vineyards near Bonn, with the three youngest of his seven children. Colleagues sometimes take jovial pokes at his bourgeois dignity. When Adenauer argued against Frankfurt as capital for the new republic because he thought it an "immoral city," a fellow...
Russia's composers had spoken their apologies for their past sins of "formalism" and "bourgeois ideology," and promised they would try harder to stay in the right key. Last week, the big brass of the Soviet Composers' Union assembled at the Moscow Conservatory to hear if all the...
An instructor of History at the Jefferson School of Social Science in New York, Aptheker in his October article in "Masses & Mainstream" called Schlesinger a "bourgeois-begotten- natured and bound intellectual. . . unrestrained even by the fetters on misquotation."
Even Russian Communists have sticky little bourgeois problems, it appeared from the autobiography of Oksana Kasenkina, the schoolteacher who escaped last year from the U.S.S.R.'s New York consulate by jumping out of a third-floor window. In her Leap to Freedom, Mrs. Kasenkina tells how the wife of...