Word: intelligentsiae
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...spite of its intelligentsia title, this is a good and straightforward book. You should not let a little thing like the author's preciosity put you off it. The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones is a brief, impressionistic, fairly comprehensive catalog of a man's life-a man not quite universal enough to be called Everyman, but typical enough to bear the name of Jones. In a note, Author Aiken explains he is indebted for the rest of his title to a translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in which the deceased is always...
...apprehend and appreciate the distinction made as between a black man and ''some CRAZY black man . . . will rape her, kill her, or both." Which distinction, however, I fear the Negro intelligentsia is going to overlook, as its editors upon whom you depend for information about ALL Negroes as "The Negro" begin to strafe TIME for "goin" 'gainst the race" in its comment on the Birmingham assault. They "solve" the race problem for a living; and categoric language means nothing when it will not permit of reasonable race-problem exploitation by them...
...Stalin did not guarantee safety for exiled "bourgeois intellectuals" who may now dare to return to Russia, he hinted it. But resoundingly he declared that Russia, with Communism still her goal, must produce as fast as possible "proletarian intellectuals ... a new working class intelligentsia...
...questionnaires so astutely that he got a position in the Edison laboratories, specializing in lighting. To the cinema studios then went he and invented special lighting effects for Gloria Swanson's The Humming Bird. Drifting to New Orleans, he became manager of a Little Theatre, hobnobbed with the intelligentsia of Tulane University. Somebody told him he should be an artist. So Douglas Brown became an artist. Scorning art schools, he invented his own technique. Scorning easels, palettes and other effete appurtenances, he paints crosslegged on the ground with his picture on a piece of cardboard...
...present welter of things, "Krish-naji sees something saner and finer emerging and a rather soul-sick intelligentsia turn to the astonishing and uncanny vitality of this stripling-scholar, not for bromidic guesswork, but for a bracing challenge to women and men to shake off ''bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell " and stand on their own feet...