Word: intelligentsiae
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Around the end of January 1968, a friend suggested that I write an article on the role of the intelligentsia in today's world. The idea appealed to me, and soon I was writing at the Installation from 7 p.m. to midnight. My wife Klava was ambivalent: she knew full well the potential consequences for us and our three children, but she allowed me complete freedom of action. By this time her health was beginning to deteriorate...
Novels by Dame Iris Murdoch are about as sturdy and reliable as a well-made trench coat. The reader can count on several things from these lengthy dissections of the British intelligentsia, and the new installment, her 24th, is no exception. One can be sure, for instance, that demon lust and his faithful servant, self-deception, will make fools of the witty, wise and powerful. There will probably be a maddeningly masochistic woman and a childish, manipulative man. A young person, usually a girl, will act as an unsparing force of nature...
...days following the tumultuous firings and resignations of East Germany's Cabinet and Politburo, there was virtually no word from the West's foreign policy intelligentsia. The silence continued for two days after the political dismantling of the Wall...
...immigrant legacy of belief in education and upward mobility." In 1983, when he was 26, Hwang suffered the sort of crisis of conscience that comes to many people whose success was quick and easy. "I lost belief in my subject matter -- I dismissed it as 'Orientalia for the intelligentsia' -- and virtually stopped writing for two years. I thought seriously about going to law school." After the anxiety passed, Hwang tried to broaden his horizons in Rich Relations, his first play not about Asians. To his disappointment but not surprise, critics took him to task. "There is in this country...
...broaden their movement beyond the campuses, the students framed their demands so they would appeal to workers and peasants as well as to the intelligentsia. In addition to their traditional demands for freedom of assembly and the press and greater "democracy," this time they pushed for a new campaign against government corruption -- an increasingly popular issue among the masses -- and for China's leaders to make public their personal financial holdings. "Many of these students took part in the 1986-87 protests," said a graduate of the University of Politics and Law who is now a government official. "They have...