Word: intelligentsiae
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After a fortnight in communion with nature in the Outer Mongolian wilderness, Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas, 62, deplaned in Moscow with a knapsack full of obiter dicta. Noting that the Ulan Bator intelligentsia is "starved for contact with the West" and that "the Russians are doing a wonderful public relations job for themselves" there, the outspoken jurist urged a U.S. counter-push, starting with instant diplomatic recognition...
Honey & Sweetness. Author Simon knows well the dilemma that France and the West face-that the Communist intelligentsia "approve any crime, if the infallibility of the Red Pope is in question," while they eagerly denounce the West's slightest misdemeanor. In this situation, a counterstrategy is hard to find. In the end, the author, like his hero, decides that the highest morality is the individual's. But if all soldiers become Larsans, there would be no armies. His act of conscience is understandable and moving, but it offers no real answer to the problem buried...
...which was fine, but it soon became obvious that Larrabee, or someone, should have defined leisure. The student panel that followed more or less decided that, for the student and for the intelligentsia, the distinction between work and leisure is a false one. In a way, it is, but you can't have a conference about leisure if you won't admit that it exists...
...depends on how much you like drama. Drama entirely for its own sake--no message, no symbolism, no social criticism, nothing that the contemporary intelligentsia has come to expect on foreign films...
...because West Germany has a surplus of doctors, partly because the government believes that if the spark of liberty is to be kept alive in East Germany, some intellectual leaders must remain. Minister for All-German Affairs Ernst Lemmer says carefully: "We wish these represent atives of the German intelligentsia would stick it out and lend their fellow citizens a moral and spiritual helping hand...