Word: intelligentsiae
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...Alas, alas for debating" has been the rallying cry for a certain group among our intelligentsia ever since the first slipping of forensics as a popular indoor sport. The wail rises sporadically and wholeheartedly from small groups of individuals, but formal debating just does not seem to pack the punch that carries widespread interest among the present-day undergraduates. Oral expression even as every other feature of our social, political, and economic existence, is in a constant state of flux, and for the time being at least debating is staggering under...
...agreement. Accepted as Ambassador at Peking in 1924 he worked hard for two years to accomplish his dream. Brilliant talker, genial host, Leo Karakhan is also one of the few athletic Soviet leaders: he plays first-rate tennis. His house in Peiping became a meeting place for the intelligentsia of north China. He picked the growing Nationalist movement as the coming power in China, gave it money and support. His nemesis was wily Old Chang Tso-lin of Manchuria, captor of Peiping in 1926, always an enemy of the Soviet. Leo Karakhan was recalled to Moscow, but in no disgrace...
...pleasure of shaking hands with famed Partner Otto Kahn of America's second biggest private banking house: Kuhn, Loeb. Not having met Mr. Kahn before, he was not only pleased but surprised to hear the banker, who prides himself on being one of the artistic intelligentsia, lard his testimony day after day with such comments as the good Senator would have expected to meet in any "liberal" paper...
...very critical of the present management. Their special antipathy seems to be the "middle class." The leading editorial dubs the middle class "over-stuffed" and also "vast, characterless, and self-satisfied." Another of the editors denounces Walter Lippmann as "no more nor less than the Brisbane of the intelligentsia," intimating that he too has become excessively middle-class. The author of an article entitled, "Hell and Farewell: The End of Social Democracy," pays his respects to contemporary Fascism, which he excoriates, having first branded it as "a middle-class movement." Despite the animadversions against the middle class, it would...
...Grusha, who feared and loved him in the old peasant way. Sergei was a believing, practicing Communist, with nothing but hatred for the old order, with no time or interest for anything but the present and the future. Then in 'Moscow he met Ludmilla, a member of the intelligentsia-to Sergei, a "lady." Their attraction was mutual, and Sergei's qualms about "ladies" temporarily subsided when they began living together. Gradually he discovered that Ludmilla was an incorrigible embodiment of the old order. Her love for him was so possessive she could hardly bear...