Word: intelligentsia
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...encouraging the irresponsible and unrestrained duplication of copyrighted material, the intelligentsia at the head of the "revolution" are undermining any confidence in a potentially viable Internet market. If the guerillas get their way, and distribution of music on the Internet becomes free everywhere, only big-name record labels will be able to maintain profits through merchandising, hyping the next teen divas, selling the posters of their glistening, glittering bodies and packing stadiums with screaming tweens. Artists will then be denied even the income that smaller record deals now afford them. Far from creating a musical utopia, the elimination...
...west came a flood of new plant and animal species, all of them also absent from the canonical lists. Help! If Holy Writ and the Big A were wrong, which way was up? For more than a century, things taxonomic went to hell in a handbasket while the European intelligentsia behaved like Chicken Little...
...years, Rivers has labeled Gates and other members of the "black elite intelligentsia" as ivory tower intellectuals who do little other than engage in theoreticals, far removed from the facts of life in poor black communities...
...with the typically Russian attention to the existence of God, the meaning of suffering and the futility of community. Surprisingly enough, the moral discussions that populate Gorky's low class world in lieu of action resonate well with students' rarefied sensibilities, as they did with the pre-Revolution Russian intelligentsia...
...starchy Great Men of History chat series called "Meeting of Minds" and a few more incarnations of the "Tonight" format (including a syndicated show in the late '60s that profoundly influenced David Letterman). He kept up the productive pace, but for smaller, older audiences - the remnants of the pop intelligentsia he had helped form. If Mensa had a nightclub for its senior members, he'd be the lounge...