Word: intelligentsiae
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...crumbling but had kept their head down and mouth shut. They began speaking and writing about the old taboos: the crimes of Stalin, of the KGB and even of Lenin. Soon the daily and weekly press was bursting with stupefying revelations and admissions. It was "wonderful for the intelligentsia," the writer Tatyana Tolstaya told Remnick, but most of all "it is a revolution for the proletariat...
...Tehran reaches out for Western trade and aid, Iranian society is feeling a steadily increasing internal pressure. Films and books, daring by local standards, that obliquely explore the effects of authoritarianism and war are enthralling the intelligentsia. For the rich, videotapes, cable television and satellite television dishes are opening fresh windows on the world. One noteworthy addition to the Iranian press is Golagha, a weekly satirical magazine that fires barbs at people in power -- though not at Rafsanjani. Editor Kiyoumars Saberi, a former Deputy Prime Minister, says his first issue in 1990 sold out all 40,000 copies in half...
Schine has an ear for authentic dialogue, especially the argot of the intelligentsia. The Washington-New York-Cambridge axis constitutes an arena for combatants to engage in calculated sparring. Schine proves to be a deft chronicler of the idiosyncracies of the tenured classes...
...member of the second generation of African-American scholars (at 62 years of age), I have experienced most facets of this issue of the Black intelligentsia's relatedness to Black realities, on and off campuses. Among the Black American intelligentsia generally, these has always been a pragmatic ecumenical understanding on the matter of just how any given Black scholar of intellectual handles the ethnic-relatedness issue. Only among that neurotic nativistic sector of the Black intelligentsia represented today by the Afrocentric elements would one find opposition to this pragmatic ecumenical formula...
...short, the mainstream sector of the Black American intelligentsia has always held the position that any given Black intellectual can seize one's ethnic relatedness or leave it alone. At the same time there has always been as well as an expectation that a sizable segment of the Black intelligentsia in any given period would in fact pick-up some facet of one's ethnic relatedness. Which is to say, for example, that some-but-not-all Black lawyers would do this (e.g. the Harvard-trained William Hastie and Charles Houston, the Howard University-trained Thurgood Marshall, the Yale-trained...