Word: intelligentsiae
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...against the Weimar Republic in 1923, Walter Ulbricht was one of two Reds who doomed them by persuading Moscow that they needed no arms, "because every Thuringian worker already has a rifle behind his stove." When untrue rumors began to drift to Moscow in the '20s about the intelligentsia, which had assumed command of the German party, Zinoviev, the boss of the Comintern, went to the files, found that all the adverse reports had been signed by Comrade Ulbricht. When Moscow decided in 1925 that the German party must be atomized so that it would be utterly obedient...
PROFESSIONAL CLASSES: "The intelligentsia is not respected in the proper way, especially those who belonged to this class before the war. We insisted on university or high-school education in an exaggerated way. We have to be more modest in this respect and not build castles...
...Russians are confused enough about our civilization without you people feeding them headlines which might read--"even at the top levels of the intelligentsia in the United States they steal from one another"--and don't give me that "spring" stiff. William C. Heppenhelmer...
...Suppose you had only a quarter of an hour to live . . ." asked the French weekly Arts of a number of France's top intelligentsia. "What kind of last message would you address to your fellow citizens?" Sample answers...
Funster criticisms wee mainly "distance," while other Houses drew protests against "intelligentsia," "athletes," and "snobbery." Noted one Yardling of Eliot, "Behind that 'cold exterior,' there is a cold interior...