Word: intelligentsia
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...voice, lightning flow, and impossibly obscure lyrics from any number of releases on legendary post-hop label Anticon (under aliases Deep Puddle Dynamics, cLOUDDEAD, Themselves with various permutations of labelmates), or from his solo collaborations with Aesop Rock, Prefuse 73, Revolutionary Ink and other heroes of the hip hop intelligentsia. His most recent project, Subtle, which features groundbreaking production from Jeffrey “Jel” Logan (Drucker’s high school pal and frequent collaborator) and live instrumentation courtesy of the remaining four members of the group, all old friends, tears down the fences between rock, electronica...
...scores and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, his favorite choice to read to school kids. So there will be chuckles of disbelief when his detractors hear that one of his latest passions is Natan Sharansky's The Case for Democracy and that when it comes to approval from the intelligentsia, the President is more needy than he lets on. Written by an Israeli Cabinet minister and former Soviet dissident, the book argues that true security in the Middle East and the world can come only with ballot boxes. The President has pressed it on his top advisers and is even proselytizing...
...Erlick said. “And especially with someone like Irma Flaquer, who was from a country where human rights violations were not being widely publicized. As a journalistic figure, she is not that well known outside of certain circles, and was part of a smaller intelligentsia than in somewhere like Argentina or Brazil...
...well. And I’m sure, having read my world exclusive report, Rush Limbaugh and the National Review will now attack George Bush with the same ferocity, the same glee, with which they trained their fire on John Kerry. But in the unlikely event that the right-wing intelligentsia somehow neglect to question Bush’s hetero-manliness the way they quite blatantly questioned Kerry’s, let’s just remember that it wouldn’t be the first time that what’s bad for the Democrats...
Literature chronicling the cultural Revolution is rife with memoirs written by China's best and brightest-the doctors, artists and intellectuals who were sent to the countryside to toil miserably as field hands during Mao Zedong's program to "reeducate" the intelligentsia. Not all who were targets of class warfare were destroyed by it, however. Mao's Last Dancer, the latest biography set in the Cultural Revolution, tells the story of a peasant boy from northern China who was propelled to international stardom by Mao's social engineering...