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Word: intellectualist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 »

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