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petit bourgeois the section of the middle class with the lowest social status, generally composed of shopkeepers, lower clerical staff, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Despising the petit-bourgeois mode of life of the nepmen, these three artists nevertheless decided to take advantage of the fluidity of the situation following the demise of central planning and to concentrate their efforts on that essential component of any market economy--the commodity--in the hope that changing its very nature might fundamentally alter its mode of consumption. In 1905, a consortium of 29 well educated, politically oriented, petit-bourgeois African American men met in a Canadian hotel in Fort Erie, Canada. In his new memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness (Harcourt), Oz remembers it as a down-at-the-heel place of petit-bourgeois Jews, which his parents always wanted to leave for "a more cultured neighborhood. |
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