Word: intelligentsiae
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...caviar and salmon as Bolshoi sopranos sang and a symphony orchestra played. At the stroke of midnight,* Nikita Khrushchev raised his glass of Caucasian wine and shouted: "Happy New Year, comrades!" In great good spirits, he tossed out more toasts-"The heroic working class!" "The collective peasantry!" "The Soviet intelligentsia!" "The all-conquering ideas of Marxism-Leninism...
...conflicts and anxiety described by contemporary theology is frighteningly applicable to the intelligentsia of female society. From the time of early competition in grade school to the end of graduate study, a woman is trained alongside her masculine peers to participate in matters of universal importance. Beyond college, however, a man is encouraged by society to transform reality; but a woman is expected to fulfill her intellectual and creative aspirations in homemaking and community social service. Consequently she practices what Tillich would call "self-reduction," in which she tries to find the whole of reality by participating in society-sanctioned...
...Knows." What made the unholy Marxist alliance between Japan's labor leaders and intellectuals particularly dangerous was the passivity of Japan's masses, who still cherish great respect for their nation's anarchic intelligentsia and are so reluctant to take a stand on anything that opinion polls regularly turn up a majority of "don't knows." When the Red-led unions and students launched their increasingly violent campaign against Kishi and the treaty, the majority of conservative-voting Japanese almost certainly disapproved-but did nothing...
...disappointing to see Sanders only half full for the H.R.O.'s Christmas concert of modern music. If the poor attendance was in main due to the fact that the program consisted entirely of works composed in this century, then this speaks ill for Harvard's intelligentsia. Certainly the first and last pieces on the program by Samuel Barber and Manuel DeFalla could not possibly be considered "difficult" works and, to those familiar with Schoenberg's atonal period and the orchestral songs of Mahler, the Octandre by Edgar Varese, the French avant-garde composer and the Four Orchestra Songs...
...group has been very well chosen, representing several sectors of Soviet life, weighted perhaps toward the intelligentsia at the expense of the worker or agricultural areas. Perhaps for this reason several members of their delegation looked with apprehension at their next stop at Penn Yan, N.Y., a small farming community near Ithaca, although Voschinin, often the group's spokesman, said with a smile before leaving Cambridge, "I'm sure it will be interesting."Group leader, V ADIM LOGINOV 32, and accordion player, V LADIMIR FEDOSEYEV, 27, a music student in Moscow, seem to be enjoying themselves at the International Students...