Word: intelligentsiae
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...that real politics requires intellectual clarity and considerable sacfifice. It is for this reason and many others that Kilson "goes off." In his judgment black students are simply irresponsible and possibly immoral to squander such exceptional resources when the black community so desperately needs a mature and policy-oriented intelligentsia...
...surface, appear somewhat harsh, but the pervasiveness of the realities discussed are in our view considerably worse. The failures described above are merely one regional and class-specific example of an underlying malaise that encompasses Blacks at every level. It is this underlying unity that our established intelligentsia has historically failed to grasp, thus accounting for their increasing irrelevence. Furthermore, this malaise has also produced new leadership opportunities for a young group of ambitious new mandarins. Hard-nosed "policy analysts" such as Professor Glenn C. Loury of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, or Dr. Alan Keys...
...these same voters had been praised and pumped up by overpaid TV commentators and underpaid instructors of political science as the most informed and best-educated and therefore the wisest electorate in the world. This year's affection for Reagan, however, brought bitter second thoughts among the liberal intelligentsia, best summed up by the Washington Post's Haynes Johnson, normally an evenhanded fellow. He suggested in a column that Reagan's overwhelming support proved Abraham Lincoln wrong, that in this age of packaged candidates it was possible to fool all of the people all the time...
...later on the outskirts of Guatemala City with 15 bullets in his body. That same day a professor of medicine was machine-gunned as he got into his car. These incidents prompted the rector of Guatemala City's University of San Carlos to denounce "open aggression against the intelligentsia." In a report published this month, the U.S. State Department claimed that "serious human rights problems continued in Guatemala in 1983, but there were improvements in some important areas...
...most of my adult life, the intelligentsia has been entranced and enamored with the idea of state power, the notion that enough centralized authority in the hands of the right-minded people can reform mankind and usher in a brave new world. [Now, however,] the cult of the state is dying; so too the romance of the intellectual with state power is over. Indeed, the excitement and energy in the intellectual world is focused these days on the concerns of human freedom...