Word: intelligentsiae
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...intelligentsia. On every hand the world of letters was pleasantly stirred to hear that Mr. John St. Loe Strachey,* famed and distinguished essayist, veteran editor of the Spectator, had finally published his first novel, at the age of 65. It was recalled that his daughter, Mrs. Amabell Williams Eltis, also published her first novel, Noah's Ark, a few months...
...should not forget that there is a group calling itself intelligentsia which is conducting considerable war on everything typically American, which includes ordinary morality and decency. These people may be intelligentsia but it is strange that they do not even know when the time has arrived for a haircut-these men are enemies to the country and Americans should regard them as such...
...bosom that the cultured upper classes reacted to any mention of his name as they would to a bathroom joke?they saw the point, but would not be caught laughing at it. This son of moonlight and custard pie crust was a green pea off the knives of the intelligentsia until statements of his began to appear in the public press to the effect that "Solitude is my only relief. ... I live with abstract thinkers, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Walter Pater. . . . Human contact makes me ill. ... I resolve to retire to some Italian lake with my beloved Shelley, Keats, and violin...
...list is an excellent commentary on culture under a democracy and, as such, is a subject neither for exultation nor for despair. If Zane Gray and Oliver Curwood seem complacent and unaesthetic to the intelligentsia, they are, nevertheless, the first choice of a complacent and unaesthetic mobocracy. If in this country, unlike Russia, there is no Tchaikowsky, neither are there downtrodden serfs. The peaks of achievement have been sacrificed for the development of the average. "The greatest good of the greatest number" is a theory that makes for social justice but hardly for the greatest...
...Then Walter Camp caught the idea, and now his All-American football team is a national institution. But the passion for "all-stars" has spread far beyond the confines of athletics alone; picking the five best this and the ten best that has become the favorite occupation of the intelligentsia. Periodicals are flooded with lists innumerable of the five greatest Americans, the ten greatest novels, and Vanity Fair has even drawn up a list of the ten dullest literary classics...