Word: intelligentsia
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...another woman) and the Disaster Relief Agency are delivering good results. Ms. Carfagna is not just a pretty partygoer, her achievements as Minister for Equal Opportunities are hard to deny. Among the voters who elected Berlusconi were many urban professionals, well educated, cosmopolitan, weary of the stiff-upper-lipped intelligentsia. Demetrio Malara, VARESE, ITALY...
...magnificent, gripping account of the contrarieties that were held together in Maugham's personality. An aloof, private socialite; a socialist patriot who loved titles and the aristocracy; one of the most famous writers on both sides of the Atlantic for half a century but never recognized by the critical intelligentsia. Hastings exposes the polarities. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...designer Snoweria Zhang ’12, who is also a Crimson photographer, matches the skill of the cast, nailing the sophisticated-but-subtle sensibility of New York’s intelligentsia. The main set of Ellie’s apartment is realistic but does not draw attention away from the characters. The sound is far less subtle. In “Last Call,” music is used exactly as it would be in a movie—to augment emotional episodes and to set the mood in moments without dialogue. This is an unusual technique...
Michael Mandelbaum of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University says resistance in the face of adversity is a key quality in a leader. He cites Thatcher, whose sheer bloody determination saw off a hostile intelligentsia, a party that sometimes treated her with all the condescension the British once reserved for clever women, and entrenched interests that fought her economic and social reforms. Before he became Prime Minister in 1996, Australia's Howard had been turfed out as leader of his own party, and when asked if he might ever lead it again, he said such...
...screeching halt. The young, fearless protesters daring the security forces to make them martyrs in the cause of freedom. The late-night call-and-response of Allahu akbar (God is great!) echoing from rooftop to rooftop. The strange confederacies between young students and elderly clerics, military men and intelligentsia, conservatives and reformists, all united by a common cause...