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Letters from Poland in the Kuryer Codzienny indicate that the Soviets as well as the Germans are trying to exterminate the intelligentsia in Poland. They report confiscation of property and deportation of professional men in Soviet Poland...
...newest plan because it accepts racial segregation. Whites dislike its Marxist economics. At 72, W. E. Burghardt Du Bois stands alone but not unrespected. When he broke with the N. A. A. C. P. in 1934, his colleagues conceded: "He created what never existed before, a Negro intelligentsia...
...early 19303 a minor revolution occurred in the U. S. The Communist Party, having failed for years "to capture the masses," much to its own surprise "captured the intelligentsia." Almost overnight, writers, admen, publishers, newshawks, college professors, engineers, lawyers, heiresses, cinemactresses, vaudevillians began to call each other comrade and urge their Negro maids to attend Communist rallies on their nights off. This triumph brought special inconveniences in its train. Workers asked few questions. But the intelligentsia were the most inquisitive and prying converts the Marxists had ever made: they were in the habit of reading about every new ism they...
Stepping warily around these network hazards, Publicist Louis G. Cowan, who conceived the program, managed to make the quizzes entertaining adult stuff. Questions flung at the tiny intelligentsia were selected by TIME'S Chicago News Bureau chief, Sidney James, who was interlocutor for the Quiz Kids until NBC deposed him on the ground that his magazine connection made him too much of a rival for Clifton Fadiman...
...spring evening in 1913 the intelligentsia of pre-war Paris gathered at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées to see & hear a sensational new ballet. The ballet, put on by famed Russian Impresario Serge Diaghilev, was something to see: Diaghilev's idea of how primitive man got ritually excited, come springtime. The accompanying music, a boisterous, tom-tomming, banshee-wailing symphonic hullabaloo by Music's No. 1 Bad Boy, Igor Stravinsky, had even more oomph than the ballet...