Word: intelligentsiae
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...that of the smart Daily News (tabloid) man who had perched above for a hardboiled newshawk's-eye view. That day and the next, before he departed, Shaw was treated by the Press as he has taught the Press to treat him, as the Jimmy Walker of the intelligentsia...
Adequately proving that they can be dangerous when aroused, the intelligentsia of New York have met together in solemn conclave to offer their support to a bill before the State Senate. This measure provides that publishers of allegedly obscene books as well as independent booksellers are to be held liable before the courts. Though at first glance this resembles the work of the Watch and Ward at its most obnoxious, further investigation reveals that there is stratagem embodied in the bill which fully justifies is proponents...
...next apartment house Mr. Boardman, respectable widower, lived in increasingly uncomfortable sin with his gold-digging mistress. Fellow-lodgers were Andre Franconi, impeccable barber, suffering in silence his earned reputation of irresistible ladies' man, slowly dying from incurable syphilis; the Otto Drollingers, pseudo-intelligentsia, who played at being Russians and called themselves Vanya & Natasha. In a nearby basement a learned, demented printer worked feverishly on his endless history, left his work sporadically to dash out around Union Square, scattering neatly printed cards of warning and doom. In the Square every day were old Mother Volga, pretzel-seller...
Perhaps Cambridge has its attractions. Sophomoric rhapsodists can find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present...
...Chicago intelligentsia have long been aware of Mrs. Hutchins' psychological drawings, compositions of nude female figures drawn "with a blank mind," with no conscious effort, which she calls "dialectic" drawings.* At various parties last winter she showed them to friends, with a magic lantern and a typewritten manuscript of stage directions and remarks, while her friend Professor Mortimer Adler of her husband's psychology department attempted to clear things up by reciting explanatory poems in free verse. A typical Adler...