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Sister Margarite Bourgeois started a school in a stable in New France in the 1600s.
These glasses date, without exception, from a comparatively late time, when among the upper classes the new engraved crystal glass had taken the place of the enamelled ware; already by the end of the seventeenth century the latter had come to be regarded as somewhat bourgeois in character.
Dickens, the supreme exponent of High Tea, knew very little about Dinner, though I remember a good meal of the bourgeois type at the house of the Patriarch in "Little Dorrit.
The crisis in imperialism has brought about a breakdown in b bourgeois social forms, culture and ideology.
84 "We should have emphasized that socialism also means the end of bourgeois ideas of love!" "Help me, Klara," Siegfried begs.
What always made New York great was its anarchic brew of mayhem and energy, Giuliani is determined to replace both with sterility and bourgeois consumerism.
But I suppose it is something of a triumph, which the publication of this book is meant to acknowledge, that black studies has achieved middlebrow status in the United States, that bourgeois people, both white and black, feel bad if they don't know something about the history and culture of African-descended people, in much the same way they feel bad, inadequate, if they don't know something about opera or a bit about Impressionist painting or if they have never seen a film by D.
Jerrold Seigel, the author of an excellent history of bohemianism, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930 (1986), says that when people go around saying bohemia is dead, what they usually mean is that they can't see how to wiggle free of commercialism and convention: "People experience bohemia as a form of authentic existence.
This daughter's appearance beside Mitterrand's wife at the funeral generated nothing but emotional sympathy, "demonstrating once again that the French don't confuse bourgeois morality with public morality.
Camel is never seen doing any productive work of any kind, is never portrayed wearing bourgeois clothing of even the Casual Friday variety (he usually wears a leather jacket), and is never seen in the company of middle-class camels who have to work for a living.
These new constituencies adopted bourgeois values, among them a fixation with fashion--what's cool and what's not.
As the old moguls came from petit bourgeois immigrant families, so do the Weinsteins.
So says modern bourgeois America, which has turned the pet into a full-fledged member of the nuclear family, even more sacred than other human beings (such as curmudgeonly aunts).
Suddenly, I was face to face with one of the recurring nightmares of bourgeois life.
Checking myself out in the dressing-room mirror, I realized that in these pants, I would never again be fearful of that other nightmare of bourgeois life, the moment in which you sense that your middle-class prosperity, your high-tech skills, your credit cards, and the advertising industry all give you license to slough off your work ethic, relax your discipline, and lower your guard.
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