Word: intelligentsiae
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...many decades and that its profound transformation did not occur until after World War II. Moreover, there are in France dogmatic patterns of thought that are part of our national heritage and that are apparent on the right as well as on the left. Finally, there is within the intelligentsia, despite its declarations to the contrary, a certain inclination toward authoritarian forms of government, in one direction as well as the other...
When Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya fell in love in 1946, Stalin was preparing his second assault against the Russian intelligentsia. Ivinskaya became the beleaguered poet's lifeline. By his own account, she was the inspiration for Lara in his novel Doctor Zhivago. She was his typist, his collaborator on translations and his business manager. While the unworldly poet remained on the sidelines, he delegated her to deal with hostile Soviet bureaucrats and, later, with the foreign publishers of his Nobel-prizewinning novel, banned in the U.S.S.R...
...whistle is finally being blown on easily the most discouraging, and frequently the most vulgar development within America's intellectual community: the neo-conservative, inherently anti-egalitarian cult of the "new ethnicity." For almost a decade now the movement has slowly, insidiously taken shape among the East Coast intelligentsia--in the halls and seminar rooms of universities like Harvard, and in the pages of prestigious New York intellectual journals like Commentary. Retreating from their former New Deal left-liberalism, political scientists such as Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and social critics such as Commentary editor Norman Podheretz have nurtured...
...reaffirmation of Jewish ethnicity that ensued, as Patterson puts it, "the Jewish intellectual was on the spot." For Patterson, the apostacy of the Jewish liberal intellectuals who for years have made Commentary one of the most respected liberal organs in the country best exemplifies the reaction of the Jewish intelligentsia to this crisis: a distressing turn rightward and the abandonment of their courageous conviction that all issues should be open to tough, non-partisan intellectual scrutiny in favor of increasingly self-interested defenses of Israeli and American Jewish interests. It took a lot of nerve for Patterson to air these...
...movie that had a short, unhappy life in the drive-ins last summer under the name Citizens Band, was discovered by a few members of the intellectual film community, successfully played at this year's New York Film Festival, and has now been rereleased. For once, the intelligentsia are right about an American genre film; this one is well worth serious consideration...