Word: intelligentsiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (born Destouches), best-selling intelligentsiac shocker of the '30s (Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan), anti-Semitic literary darling of Vichy France, was nabbed in Copenhagen. The Danes planned to let the French help him with his next chapter...
This is a timely description of the evolution, habits, hopes and hates of a long-neglected U.S. fauna, the intelligentsiac lefties. It is probably the most readably realistic novel yet written about them, because humorless Author Hicks takes these strange creatures almost as seriously as they take themselves. For the same reason, it is one of the funniest...