Word: bourgeoise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three decades after Henry Luce slated him as heir apparent, Hedley Donovan still professes uncertainty as to what virtues the Time Inc. founder saw in deciding he would become (as he did from 1964 to 1979) the company's editor in chief. But readers of Donovan's urbane, frequently self...
No evidence uncovered so far in East Germany indicates plundering on a scale to rival world-class pillagers of national treasuries like the Marcos family of the Philippines or the Pahlavis of Iran. Honecker, along with other top party officials, lived a decidedly bourgeois life inside the walled luxury compound...
It's easy to attribute archetypal significance to events that are as far away as Germany. It's easy to speak of the Brandenburg Gate as theentrance into "bourgeois society." The world is not so centered as that, though. Admittedly, "bourgeois" is one of the world's vaguer words, but...
I don't mean that leaving Harvard Yard and entering the consumeristic picnic of Harvard Square is analogous to leaving East Berlin for the West. I have the other direction in mind. Entering the Yard to become a Harvard student is analogous to walking through the Wall to West Berlin...
Reading Locke is probably just as bourgeois as going to The Game, but I think there's a difference. Around here anway, The Game is The Hype, and by going I show that I believe the hype, the same way that some newly westernized Berliners believe the hype about the...