Word: intelligentsiae
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...Angeles' West Hollywood Auditorium one night last week, there was enough long hair to string a gross of fiddles.* About 600 of the local intelligentsia-artists, music students and professionals-turned up to hear a dozen or so musicians play a program of choice chamber music. It would have been quite all right with the musicians if no listeners had turned up at all. For the concerts called "Evenings on the Roof" (now in their 14th season) are "for the pleasure of the performers, and will be played regardless of audience...
...shook their doubts, but still it seemed to them that the French cause in Indo-China was, at best, the lesser of two evils; proud Viet Nam nationalism could not forget the arrogant French colonialism of the past. Some of the bitterest criticism of France came from the native intelligentsia who spoke the purest French. Many joined Ho Chi Minh's camp. Many more played the game the French called attentisme-fence-sitting-waiting to see which side would...
...Billy Budd" is built around an abstract moral theme and as such it differs greatly from the average Broadway plot-dominated production. The average American audience considers "Billy Budd" hard work. Hence its mixed reception on Broadway. The backers are counting on the intelligentsia, among whom the Brattle playgoers like to consider themselves, for the appreciation and financial support the production needs. After Tuesday's opening, both of these necessities seemed assured...
...spite of this loss in intelligentsia popularity, Auden continues to be a clever fellow, even on the side of the respectable angels. His latest book of verse, Nones (the title refers to the ninth hour-3 p.m. -of the monastic day, and means "mid-afternoon"), shows that he can write to order, in satirical vein, more brilliantly than anyone since Byron...
...Yesterday, on my [60th] birthday,' wrote Britain's sardonic Economist George Schwartz recently in his London Sunday Times column, "I came to a great resolve. I have resigned from the intelligentsia ... I have had enough of it. I have decided to line up with the damfool section of the population, the 95%, meaning you ... As a ci-devant intellectual I was one of the elect. I knew what it was all about, whereas the supreme characteristic of you, my new associates, is that you don't know what it is all about . Where...