Word: intelligentsiae
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...self-exiled in Dresden at mid-career, with Poor Folk and Crime and Punishment behind him and The Brothers Karamazov far in the future. He is a passionate, tormented idealist, still roiled by the Western liberal notions of social and political freedom that had swept the Russian intelligentsia a generation before. But the new, younger Russian intellectuals are not liberals; they are nihilists and anarchists, and Dostoyevsky is repelled and shaken. This ferment will result, two years later, in the towering "pamphlet-novel" variously called The Devils, The Possessed and (in a vigorous new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa...
...life as Charles' rejected wife. No new life is open to her, and any attempts to get to know another man would be met with a furor. Observers of the British Establishment -- a powerful force comprising senior Conservative politicians, civil servants, heads of financial institutions, certain members of the intelligentsia and the aristocracy -- have noted how it is closing ranks behind Charles. In '92 Diana was the wronged woman; now she is portrayed as selfish, a spendthrift and maybe crazy...
There is more to populism than meets the eye. Though it often seems to spring from out-of-the-loop sources not worth the attention of the intelligentsia, at the right moments in history is able to tap immense stores of dormant power, residing in the simple mass of the populace. In any nation, and perhaps especially in a democracy, the normally passive majority can be roused to levels of action which, due merely to their weight in numbers, can have profound effects on society. Whether the action comes in the from of picking up a ballot or picking...
...Asian-American literature providing `Orientalia' for the intelligentsia?" Chou asked, echoing a statement made by Hwang...
From the collective mindset of the modern intelligentsia, Beavis and Butt-head are perceived as leaders of a rival morality. Yet, in an exclusive Rolling Stone interview, Butt-head rejects the very idea of collective morality--instead, he remains true to his own bawdy brand of heroic individualism. "I like to burn stuff," Butt-head explains, "but that doesn't mean you have to. Huh-huh. Huh-huh. It would be cool if you did, though." As Beavis and Butt-head represent the voice of a new generation, their appeal is self-evident. They pass judgement on all they witness...