Word: intelligentsia
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...suggested, these critical catcalls reflect less the quality of the film and more the prevailing fashions of the art-house intelligentsia: in favor of bleak austerity, dismissive of sweeping sentiment. But on its own terms, this is a daring and impressive achievement...
...Prof. Al-Rawi would likely have left, too, if it hadn't been for his interest in the AMS - and his commitment to the professors' union. "If we all leave, we condemn the next generation of Iraqis to backwardness," he told me. "Without an intelligentsia, our society will retreat to the Middle Ages...
...Sciences Institute of Europe: "In Soviet times, funerals of individuals frowned upon by the state but beloved by the people emerged as the only form of spontaneous public protest." Furman invoked the funeral of poet Boris Pasternak in 1960, which grew into the first spontaneous demonstration by the Soviet intelligentsia in decades. He also recalled the funeral of poet and bard Vladimir Vysotsky in 1980. In contrast to the refined Pasternak, the folksy Vysotsky, perennially restricted and harassed by the authorities, was as popular among ordinary Soviets as Elvis Presley had been among the Americans. Vysotsky's funeral grew into...
...there’s one thing the Cambridge arts intelligentsia could take away from Tony Kushner’s visit last Wednesday, it’s that he pulls no punches—whether discussing Israeli politics, the Bush administration, or “Death of a Salesman.”Kushner, who famously authored the Pulitzer, Tony, and Emmy-winning “Angels in America,” as well as the screenplay to “Munich,” visited the Brattle Theatre last Wednesday. The occasion was a public discussion with theatrical director and theorist...
...away message for a really long time. Many journalists merely chalked the quote up to Guillen’s characteristic irreverence and self-confidence. One can also imagine that he was just kidding, or maybe using his playoff success to rail against the emerging Ivy League baseball intelligentsia (like Boston Red Sox general manager and Yale grad Theo Epstein, or recently deposed Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta ’95, or Oakland A’s assistant GM David Forst ’98, or Florida Marlins vice president and assistant GM Mike Hill ’93).But speaking...