Word: bourgeoise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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And between 1910 and 1970 the dynamics of reading and writing have changed. Few people read habitually now-movies and T.V. provide a far more effortless escape to fill lonely nights. Reading literature is a form of active self-exploration. Unlike the movies, books demand immense concentration and visual inventiveness...
Counterattacking, Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, a master of vivid invective, last week likened Solzhenitsyn to a noxious plant pest. At a meeting of 4,500 Soviet farmers at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the author of And Quiet Flows the Don drew a parallel between literature and collective farming...
Then, with scarcely a pause, he began work on The Milky Way, which he also called his finale. Yet before he and the century have completed their seventh decade, he will have directed his 28th film, Tristana. With another director, such ambiguities of statement and action might seem a bit...
"A bourgeois poet with the instincts of a grand seigneur" as Besterman puts it, Voltaire set out none too scrupulously to guarantee himself financial security. Before his 24th birthday, he had become an instant success with his first and most famous play, Oedipe, in which he used Greek tragedy to...
One might ask what they would have done if they had reached the gates of the White House, and what purpose it would have served. That is a question which can't he answered. It is enough to say that thousands of middle class youths in America in 1969 feel...