Word: intelligentsiac
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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...
...saddles to the old vice crusader. Erskine Caldwell is a newcomer to the Viking list, a young author of the leftwing, hard-boiled school of U. S. fiction. Queer mixtures of Rabelaisian spade-calling, bell laughter and poetic proletarianism, God's Little Acre luridly illustrates two present-day intelligentsiac trends: towards unashamed sensuality, against capitalistic industry. It also underlines a recent tendency of U. S. publishers: to go as near the limits of censorship as possible...
...search of music, ... a certain warmth of welcome, and museums with clean pictures, in all of which France is poor," four intelligentsiacs last summer deserted Paris to tour central Europe in an automobile. Novelist Wescott was along and, like a good intelligentsiac, kept his head rambling with the car. As the landscape from Paris to Bamberg flits before his eyes, thoughts on literature, religion, mankind-in-general flit behind. These he sets down deferentially "in fear and trembling" at generalizing on such knotty themes...
Vicki Baum is sentimental, for which no conscientious intelligentsiac will forgive her; but she tells a good story. And unlike most of her Teutonic peers and superiors, she has a sense of humor...