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...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...
...populations." Duhamel and other French intellectuals must now accept that all the French psychobabble about victimized youth did not explain the riots in the banlieues. What is really sad is the number of burned cars and shops it has taken to open the eyes of France's so-called intelligentsia. Nicolas Thébault Versailles, France The riots that exploded in the French suburbs are another proof, if needed, that French immigration policy is a total failure. Our demagogues have let thousands of African immigrants settle in our country without showing any concern for their integration. They were housed...
...DIED. BA JIN, 100, Chinese literary giant; in Shanghai. A member of the young intelligentsia that criticized China's pre-Communist society, he studied anarchism, and wrote Family, a brutal 1931 novel about feudal life that was his seminal work. During the Cultural Revolution, he was condemned by the Communist leaders who had once hailed him, but he regained his stature in the 1980s, publishing dozens of essays and winning election as a leader of the country's official Writers Association...