Word: intelligentsiae
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...could do more, and one eye obediently goes blind. No Hathaway-shirt eye patches for him. He commissions Henri Matisse to paint him a blue-eyed poker chip as a monocle. Harper's Bazaar publishes Garvey's picture with his Matisse eye, and soon half the intelligentsia are playing poker with trompe-l'oeil chips. The neat little spoof suggests that Bradbury would do very well if he came out from under that fright...
Concludes Williams: "The reader of Fifth Amendment literature cannot fail to be impressed by the subjective character of the approach often displayed. When businessmen and crooked politicians were under fire, comment on the Fifth Amendment in the law reviews and periodicals read by the intelligentsia was very hostile. Since the amendment has come to be invoked by intellectuals in the last few years, there has been a flood of highly sympathetic comment in the same publications...
...While the smoke from fire-brigade activities still reeked by Waban where they were washed, the this' breed arrived at the Massachusetts State House to peddle sacred, clammy cod. Photo-poetic interpretations of all the fun and wit and merriment here not a tone for the Spring Fashion Insert intelligentsia...
...early days of the Soviet regime, the so-called intelligentsia was generally persecuted for standing in the way of the revolution. The soviet economy, thought many revolutionaries, would be run in the future by the man who used to work on the assembly line. This idealistic view was short-lived, however. The Soviet leaders soon realized that to increase production, a highly skilled group of managers and technicians would have to be developed. This realization still exists today...
...counterespionage organization, was tried in Leningrad a fortnight ago before the military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. The indictment accused Viktor Abakumov of having: 1) "framed up and falsified charges against individual workers of the party and Soviet government and representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia"; 2) "using methods of investigation prohibited by Soviet law"; 3) "having forced arrested people to give false confessions, saying that they were guilty of severe crimes against the state": 4) and having "prevented the arrested people from sending complaints...