Word: intellegensia
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...believe that "rank opportunism" is why Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates are where they are--in the top tier of intellegensia, black or white...
...typical example of the East German intellegensia on which Borneman focuses is Regine, a film-maker from East Berlin. She dealt with the government-imposed isolation from the West by making the best of her situation. Regine worked for the state, producing documentary films about socialist life. This occupation allowed her to inform the masses. Such work, she concedes, gave her "a touch of the self-congratulatory condescension intellectuals feel in indulging the less gifted." Though such thinking seems arrogant, it represented the dedication of Bourneman's intellectuals to socialism, though not to the state itself...
...spite of low salary and non-union hours, "the intellegensia as is" seems contented with its lot. Philosophers have always proclaimed the joys of "thought for thought's sake", and have extended a general invitation to all who cared to listen. The fact that few have heeded has bothered them not at all, up to the present. But now a critic, exclaiming that the teaching profession is in danger of falling into the hands of women, a possibility decried by all educational experts, sets before men the arguments to induce them to enter it: the interest offered by contact with...
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