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...largely ignored by all but a few activists. (One prominent activist is Barbara Walters, who clearly does not feel that the news need burden us with the vagaries of war or crime so long as a star or Kennedy is around to be interviewed.) This in part betrays the intellectualist biases of the anti-television crusaders. CNN is undoubtedly the most violent network on television, yet its proprietor Ted Turner can, without any irony at all, testify before a Senate Panel about the ills of TV violence...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Scaring Up A Simple Crisis | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

...average reader to understand properly, since they mingle fact with myth and imaginative editing. The critics spin out "secret interpretations that no one knows without a Ph.D.," snaps Paul Mickey, a conservative at Duke University. Says Father John Navone of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome: "A kind of intellectualist bias has grown up; unless you are aware of the very latest academic theory about the Bible, you might as well not read it." The result is a dangerous gap between the thinking at elite universities and the beliefs of thriving congregations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who Was Jesus? | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...been hearing from the highest-principled people in the world," Bradlee says sarcastically. "They raise the question: Is a gossip column fit for human consumption in Washington, D.C.? Gossip is the biggest industry in town! I don't want to edit the dullest, stuffiest, intellectualist paper around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Going Eyeball to Eyeball - and Blinking | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...would especially urge all Freshmen to beware the sort of sophistry of which the CRIMSON's editorial is such an out standing example a decadent intellectualist sophistry that so charms with its vagaries that so charms with its vagaries as to make it impossible for its victims as to make it impossible for the victims to see what is every where obvious to the man in the street--that his country is not at war David K. Eichler 2G., Executive Council Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

...Tower Magazine, sold in Woolworth stores. Tower's gumchewers' magazines are headed by able Publisher Catherine McNelis, who also publishes the intellectualist American Spectator, of which Dreiser was a onetime editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Thrice-Told Tale | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

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