Sentences with phrase «elite cultural revolutions»

Himmelfarb is especially strong on religion as the first of our political in stitutions (Tocqueville), and be lieves that we are currently witnessing a Great Awakening that, while it may not prevail as a counterrevolution against the elite cultural revolutions of this century, can provide a «modest reformation» that contains and tempers their excesses.

Not exact matches

Another elite echoed this view and also pointed to the younger generation's more limited knowledge of China's ups and downs in general, including the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.

Unsurprisingly, Persepolis has attracted the wrath of the Iranian government, but more captivating than the film's depictions of cultural repression (a scene where Marji, out to buy a black market Iron Maiden album, is beset by weasel - bodied female Guardians of the Revolution because she wears a jean jacket and «punk» sneakers is but one well - handled example) are its more understated portraits of Iran's intellectual elite, at once removed from the proletariat it so pompously champions and sadly delusional about the real threat of the fanatic trajectory of the rRevolution because she wears a jean jacket and «punk» sneakers is but one well - handled example) are its more understated portraits of Iran's intellectual elite, at once removed from the proletariat it so pompously champions and sadly delusional about the real threat of the fanatic trajectory of the revolutionrevolution.