Word: intelligentsiae
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...other words, are cowboys and sexpots and raucous young hunks--Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift. It seems that Europeans and Japanese are especially fond of the American icons that provided their first pop jolt 20 or 30 or 40 years ago--pop that now has patina. The French intelligentsia still swoons for American movies of the '40s and '50s. Levi's is using images of James Dean and John Wayne in its advertisements in Japan, music by Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke in Europe. "We're selling not the America of today but the America they imagine," says Chriss...
...place is the Signet Literary Society--or Siggy as its members affectionately refer to it--and for the last 116 years in its quaint yellow cottage on Dunster Street has been a better gathering place for some of the Harvard intelligentsia, than Ticknor Lounge, and yes, even better than Adams House...
There is no doubt that Katz, at 58, is one of the few painters who are equally popular with critics and the public in America; he is, judging by the affection his work seems to evoke, the Norman Rockwell of the intelligentsia. To doubt the ultimate value of Katz might be construed as a vote against sunny lawns, clean, eager profiles, bright lakes, East Hampton parties, pretty women in lofts, long marital attachment and, above all, style--in short, against everything that makes the arts-and-leisure section of American life such a nice place...
What is downplayed in this fetishizing of Harvard Law School, however, is that CLS extends far beyond the arena of veri-turf squabbles. It is a national movement among the legal intelligentsia, drawing over a thousand participants to its annual conference...
...black Americans and the changing social structure within black communities. Much of the Old Guard has heatedly criticized the new approach as a misguided and dangerous capitulation to the nation's conservative tide. For better or worse, this philosophical ferment has exposed deep differences in a formerly unified black intelligentsia...