Word: intelligentsiae
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Harvard's brightest stars--its well-respected and well-treated faculty members--keep the Harvard name in the national spotlight. Their names appear in newspaper articles, their faces on television, their opinions in the magazines of the country's intelligentsia...
...sights are as droll as that of the European intelligentsia trying to have a rotten time. Five years ago, when Disney executives announced plans for the park at a ceremony in front of the Paris Bourse, they were pelted with eggs and tomatoes. Where their children (who buy 10 million copies of Le Journal de Mickey) see a mouse, French intellectuals smell a rat. They called the project "Euro Disgrace," "Euro Dismal," "a cultural Chernobyl...
...normal coloring books, anyway. You can find a few in the children's section of Wordsworth Books. But these are not traditional, cheapo-newsprint coloring books featuring Mickey Mouse or Popeye or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. These are coloring books for the kiddie intelligentsia. They're geared towards the children who were drilled on German Philosopher Flashcards at age two, attended experimental elementary schools where all classes were taught in Esperanto, and grew up to apply to Harvard and be your roommate. Maybe you had one of these coloring books yourself...
...suspects that a considerable understanding of the British intelligentsia is necessary for a true appreciation of these works. Just reading Iris Murdoch will not do. The story involves the Lampitt family, a large clan whose money springs from 18th century alehouses. "They're not really aristocrats," a character observes, "they're the intellectual aristocracy of England . . . one of the best things this country has ever produced...
...arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...