Word: dreyfusism
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...centuries, intellectuals functioned usefully as part of establishments, and Coleridge visualized an intellectual caste, which he called clerisy, providing teachers and guides for the nation. Only in the last 100 years did intellectuals (the word became current during the Dreyfus affair in the 1890s) emerge as a separate class and organized opposition. This was made possible in part by the bourgeoisie; while the old aristocracy was insult-proof, the middle class positively begged to be told off. Yet the more the intellectuals criticized their societies, the more they complained that their societies did not appreciate them...
...revolution. Though he had vigorously built schools and roads, cut unemployment and raised literacy, Arraes had the support of Communists and installed several in key government posts. The military accused him of subversion and tossed him into jail. After a few months Arraes became a sort of Brazilian Dreyfus; letters of protest poured in from hundreds of admirers, including Novelists Graham Greene and François Mauriac, and Switzerland's Charles Cardinal Journet. Last week the federal supreme court unanimously granted Arraes a writ of habeas corpus-in effect, ordering his release forthwith from Fort Santa Cruz across...
...would like to call attention to the results of our own fund, which was not mentioned. During the twelve-month period ending Sept. 30, 1964, Ivest Fund appreciated by approximately 38%. This was during the same period that Penn Square rose 29%, Fidelity Trend rose 27% and Dreyfus rose 23%. As a matter of fact, in the Arthur Wiesenberger & Co. service, our fund was the best-performing fund for the twelve months ending...
Over the year ended last September (the latest yardstick used by Manhattan's Arthur Wiesenberger & Co., the industry's Boswell), Penn Square Mutual shot up 29% v. a 19% rise in the Dow-Jones industrials, Fidelity Trend rose 27% , and the $744 million Dreyfus Fund, whose symbolic lion gives its sales promotion a distinctive flair, climbed 23% . Among the big funds that emphasize a mixture of growth and in come, United Accumulative Fund rose 17% and Affiliated Fund 16%. Massachusetts Investors Trust, the nation's oldest and second largest ($2.1 billion assets), made a 15% gain...
Volkswagen Chairman Heinz Nordhoff and Citroën's Pierre Bercot have both expressed alarm at growing competition from "American giants" in the European market. Fiat's Chairman Vittorio Valletta has openly called for a cartel of European producers, and Renault's President Pierre Dreyfus favors government protection against the U.S. subsidiaries...