ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BOURGEOIS
From Old French borjois, burgeis burgher, citizen, from bourg town.
10 QUOTES WITH «BOURGEOIS»
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bourgeois.
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOURGEOIS»
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Briefly describes Louise Bourgeois life and background, and shares her comments on her approach to art and the influences on her work
Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit, 1988
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The
Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life’s work.
Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2010
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The Absolute
Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, ...
T. J. Clark's classic work of art history refuses to separate art from its social and political context in revolutionary France.
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Fantastic Reality: Louise
Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art
A critical study of Louise Bourgeois's art from the 1940s to the 1980s: its departure from surrealism and its dialogue with psychoanalysis.
Mignon Nixon, Louise Bourgeois, 2005
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Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a
Bourgeois World
Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, this volume investigates metropolitan-colonial relationships.
Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler, 1997
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The
Bourgeois Revolution in France, 1789-1815
Against this conception, this book reasserts the view that the Revolution - the capital event of the modern age - was indeed a capitalist and bourgeois revolution.
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Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930
The restrictive covenants, many of which are still commonly employed, tell us as much about American society today as a century ago."--BOOK JACKET.
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
39. But. Bourgeois. Dignity. and. Liberty. Entwined. with. the. Enlightenment. One
can agree with Goldstone, who in defending the new-old view of Margaret Jacob
and Joel Mokyr that Technological Ideas Supported by the Enlightenment Did It, ...
Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2011
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The Bon Marché:
Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, ...
In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marché, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly ...
Michael Barry Miller, 1981
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The
Bourgeois: Between History and Literature
The book charts the rise and fall of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical weakness, and searches for the seeds of its failures. From the Hardcover edition.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOURGEOIS»
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Police seek vandals who toppled veterans' headstones
“I don't know what these people could get out of tipping over a gravestone,” said cemetery superintendent Ed Bourgeois. Police discovered the ... «WPTZ The Champlain Valley, Jul 15»
Las Vegas Mariachi group offers workshop in Wallingford
Mariachi Academy of Connecticut Music Director Evangeline Mendoza-Bourgeois said the purpose of the workshops is to teach the children ... «Meriden Record-Journal, Jul 15»
Forsberg a force on Mount Marathon, but so were Pease and other …
Yet when you consider how multiple-time past women's champions Pease, Carmen Young, Cedar Bourgeois and Nina Kemppel fared ... «Alaska Dispatch News, Jul 15»
Morehouse General launches clinic in Sterlington
MGH Clinic Manager Margie Bourgeois told that Enterprise that Meche is an asset to the MGH family and an excellent fit for the new clinic, ... «Bastrop Daily Enterprise, Jul 15»
CIOs need holistic view for FITARA to have maximum effect
Doug Bourgeois is the Vice President, End User Computing, U.S. Public Sector, VMware. He was previously the Director of the National ... «Federal Times, Jul 15»
Terrebonne reduces number of uncertified teachers
In May, the district hired more than 40 teachers at a career fair at H.L. Bourgeois High School. As a result, Lafourche school officials have ... «Daily Comet, Jul 15»
Cassandra's Foreboding Ghost Haunts Greece After the 'No' Vote
Above all they had joined the international spending elite that David Brooks hailed as "Bobos" (Bourgeois Bohemians) "Bobos in Paradise. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Counting down Louisiana football's Preseason Top 50 for 2015: No …
Overview: At the beginning of last season, East Ascension Coach Paul Bourgeois and his team knew that they had their work cut out for them, ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»
How gay marriage paves the way for legal polygamy
What Rauch is ultimately arguing is that bourgeois society is superior to the furies of unrestrained sexual desire and conquest, or to more ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
Reds' Price: Barnhart has earned more playing time
Jason Bourgeois started Sunday in center field despite Billy Hamilton being fine. In fact, Hamilton pinch-hit and drew a walk and stole second. «Cincinnati.com, Jul 15»
