In the mid-nineteenth century the bourgeoisie were apparent everywhere. You met them in theatres and restaurants, in churches and clubs, on beaches and river boats, in woods and parks, often walking ...
Uprisings that keep the bourgeoisie on tenterhooks. What could have been the title of a film by Luis Buñuel is a recurring expression, a recurring reality against the world of money, against the world ...
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A wealthy African American family gathers at their vacation home in Martha's Vineyard and like at any family gathering, drama and comedy ensue. We'll talk with Lydia Diamond about her play "Stick Fly" ...
Moi’s integration into Ruto’s government represents the fusion of two wings of the same corrupt bourgeoisie, the KANU dynasty ...
THE crowd surges back and forth, hands above heads, mobile-phone cameras snapping one of Brazil's best-known samba bands. It could be almost anywhere in Latin America's largest city on a Saturday ...
The colonial bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka did not form a monolithic class. They were divided horizontally as well as vertically: horizontally on the basis of income and inheritance, and vertically on the ...
Almost 20 years ago, the columnist David Brooks caught the spirit of the age. His book Bobos in Paradise hailed the marriage between bohemian 1960s radicals and the money-chasing bourgeoisie of the ...
“The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” is a comedy of frustrations in which a sextet of super-civilized haute bourgeois repeatedly attempt and fail to sit down at dinner. By J. Hoberman Luis Buñuel ...
“All of the birds died in 1986 due to Reagan killing them and replacing them with spies that are now watching us. The birds work for the bourgeoisie.” Those are the words of Kendrick Smith, a ...
Your story “The Hollow” follows a rekindled connection between two former college classmates: Jack, who has moved to the country and abruptly lost his high-powered job and his relationship, and ...
In December, the Labour Party announced a new demographic that it would appeal to: “Middle-aged mortgage man.” This was met with understandable derision from some on the left. Middle-aged males with ...