Word: intellegentsia
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...Colored Man and many of Hughes's works (he indeed is solely responsible for launching Hughes's major publishing career). As the letters between him and Hughes attest, Van Vechten seemed genuinely enamored with the black culture thriving Uptown. Nevertheless, this same man outraged many in the black intellegentsia when wrote a work entitled Nigger Heaven, a provocatively named, mediocre book that contained depictions many critics found offensive. The consequence of this negative reception was the sealing of Van Vechten's reputation as a ruthless exploiter of Harlem's culture for his own benefit. It is this characterization that these...
...instance, Harvard has given Anderson new perspectives on scholarship and elitism. "I don't like Cambridge too much," says the Georgia resident. "I don't like the pretentious atmosphere that I feel a lot of times. It seems here people judge you by your title, because of the intellegentsia that's here...
...following year, was converted to Fascism. "I personally think extremely well of Mussolini," he wrote to Harriet Monroe of Poetry magazine in November, 1925. "If one compares him to American presidents (the last three) or British premiers, etc., in fact one cannot without insulting him. If the intellegentsia don't think well of him, it is because they know nothing about 'the state,' and government, and have no particularly large sense of values." Pound soon began to date his letters Fascist style, according to the March on Rome in 1922. But it was not until seven years later...
Social Relations 135. Harvard. M. (W.) at 12. Professor Emeritus F. R. Kent-Winchell. Leisurely reminiscences of half a century among the intellegentsia, with special emphasis on personal habits, social mishaps and unexpected departures in an intellectual community...
Perhaps the most frequently discussed aspect of the House Plan has been the probable status of the fraternities when Yale becomes small and intimate again. The alarmists put their heads together and imagine all sorts of dire results, the intellegentsia see a better future than a past for these much-maligned institutions, the Indifferents say: "What...
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