Word: intelligentsiae
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...agricultural proletariat" of the villages, who have no trouble finding jobs in their own communities but are not well-to-do and are "not in a good situation," and the professionals. Members of the last group who find positions within Arab communities do very well, but sometimes the Arab intelligentsia can't find work in their segregated communities and "have trouble being accepted in the Jewish sector...
...actually responsible for putting Russian writers on trial, and examine the society that made Evtushenko what he is-a brash conformist and rather uncultured Soviet young man." Professor Dunham believes that his critics have no right to expect Evtushenko to act like a genuine member of the dissenting intelligentsia in Russia. "He has always been a part of the political establishment, and as such was able to do a lot of good in his time," she says. Oxford's Russian specialist, Max Hay ward, is also dismayed by the severity of the attacks on Evtushenko, and points out that...
...like taking a guided tour through the seven circles of the political hell that Western Europe built for itself on the bases of the Depression, (the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the cold war. There is no trace here of the characteristic vices of the political intelligentsia of his day ("The ching that frightens me about the modern intelligentsia is their inability to see that human society must be based on common decency, whatever the political and economic forms may be"). NOT is there rhetoric, or the striking of attitudes; for these pleasurable vices, he substituted...
...Orwell, political issues were moral issues. He understood that peace and social justice would descend on the world, if at all, from a moral impulse, and where was that impulse to come from? Not from the "self-justifying complacent hypocrisy of the boiled rabbits. . .of the left intelligentsia." The real problem of the West, as he saw it, was to preserve mankind's ethical values- honor, mercy, justice, respect for others -in the face of an almost universal disappearance of a belief in the immortality of the soul. Being naturally a good man, he was a good humanist...
Contrary to the Communist and Western myths, the struggle of the 20th century is not East v. West, Communism v. the Free World, Democracy v. enslavement, "people's paradise" v. "capitalist imperialism," but the intelligentsia and oppressed against the worldwide Establishment, liberty and freedom v. suppression. The differences between the Soviet's suppression of literature and "normalization" of Czechoslovakia, Peking's Cultural Revolution, and the Wallace-Nixon-Daley concept of law and order are very slight. Their purposes are the same: the suppression of dissent and meaningful dialogue, and the expunging of opposition...