Word: intelligentsiae
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...nots. . . . None can put pressure on the people to manipulate the elections. That is why our elections are the only free democratic elections in the world. . . . Comrades, on my side I assure you you can depend on Comrade Stalin to carry out his duty to workers, peasants and the intelligentsia...
...loves, have already been recorded a number of times on the screen. The latest version, "Love Is News" moves along so briskly, however, and is packed with so many amusing episodes that the frailty of the plot can well be overlooked. It is obviously not a film for the intelligentsia, for the comedy at best is somewhat rough and often slapstick, but the enthusiasm of Tyrone Power, Jr., Don Ameche and Loretta Young make it a film well worth seeing...
...Republic's first President. Said he last week: "The tyranny of General Primo de Rivera was just and tolerant compared to the oppressions of the present Madrid-Valencia regime. Every day they are killing men and women simply because they are suspected of having independent opinions. All the intelligentsia of Spain, with the exception of a few who favor Communism, have had to flee for their lives out of the part of our country controlled by Largo Caballero. I wish to express my disillusionment in Republican Spain and my remorse for having taken part in creating...
...summation of their hero a little on the faint side: "Chekhov is a great artist using a small canvas, a poet of the little." Princess Toumanova regards him as the mouthpiece of "the superfluous man," as the sad "voice of twilight Russia." "He lived among the inactive, talkative, dissatisfied intelligentsia, which formed the background of his literary efforts and, as a true physician who diagnoses the disease, he observed stagnation and inertia and gave us a perfect picture of what he saw around him." But that was the later Chekhov. In his early days he set whole vistas of tables...
...came to a patriotic conclusion. He tells of an election night in Manhattan, Roosevelt II's inaugural parade in Washington, Bernard Shaw's speech at the Metropolitan Opera House, a Buchmanite mass meeting, Jane Addams and Chicago's Hull House, a drunken evening with the intelligentsia, a milk strike in upstate New York, Charles E. Mitchell ("a man with a full-fleshed common face and a fierce, unconvincing eye-a man of a low order, caught in suspicious circumstances and hard put to it to talk himself out") on trial for defrauding the Government, his grandfather...