Word: intelligentsiac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heyday of Freudian psychology during the 20s, nearly every intelligentsiac bought at least "one simple popularization of Freud's works and could reel off an impromptu psychoanalysis at the drop of a symbol. With Depression, Freud was more & more often supplanted either by such former disciples as Alfred Butler, who called his adaptation "Individual Psychology," or by Karl Marx. To some observers, Freud's declining popularity among common readers looked permanent...
Dasha, pretty, passionate, intelligent, has come to Petersburg to study law and live with her married sister, Katia, whose husband, Smokovnikov, is a lawyer of liberal politics. In Katia's intelligentsiac salon Dasha meets the evil Bessonov, poet of despair, who has already seduced her sister and almost hypnotizes Dasha herself. Luckily for her she falls in love with the straightforward Telegin, an engineer whose only connection with the highbrow world is his menagerie of tenants, all left-wing esthetes. As first the War and then the Revolution sweep down on Russia, these human figures take on a more...
Books, talk, drink, women he tasted greedily but skeptically, came to the conclusion that self-love was the myopia that blinded nearly everyone he knew, including himself. In spite of his intelligentsiac friends he decided that intelligence was not a menace: it was simply not being used. Because the Communists seemed to him as myopic as everyone else he refused to be a Communist. Instead he married the faithful Athene, who had been "a kind of mother to five years of grief," went with her back to his family home in Idaho, settled down to write his honest story...
Eighteen years ago Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan, Buffalo socialite and intelligentsiac hostess, tired of Europe...
Restless travelers both, both endowed with a seeing eye, Aldous Huxley and John Dos Passos view the world through spectacles differently tinted. Huxley is an intelligentsiac, Dos Passos a neoCommunist. But both are as free as any lances to be found these days, and their eyewitness reports make worthwhile reading for stay-at-homes...