Word: intelligentsiae
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...never completely shaken his fear of the "mike." fear that his listeners, estimated at 20 millions now, are not laughing. The Texas Co. hired him with the idea of reaching the vast hoipolloi. For a time it was worried when fan letters poured in from tycoons and the intelligentsia. Now it is satisfied that Ed Winn simply makes everybody laugh...
...course such a proposal posits that the time will be spent in definite study. The bottle-fed tours conducted by Cook, the flying trips to Europe extensively advertised among the intelligentsia which outline a day in Paris, including visits to "the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb, the Invalides (sic), Luxembourg Gardens, the Trocadero, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide...
...accompanied Gurdjieff, with some 40 other pupils, on a tour of the U. S. In 1924 he was assigned the task of spreading the Gurdjieff ideas in America. Known by his editorial reputation to a few people in New York, Gurdjieffite Orage soon proselytized scores of the intelligentsia. Americans began to flock to Fontainebleau. But in 1924 an automobile accident almost killed Gurdjieff; he was forced to discontinue the activities of his Institute, took to writing. His book, of biblical proportions, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, or an Objective Criticism of the Life of Man, recently completed...
...Author. James Hanley, latest White Hope of the intelligentsia, was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the same age as his hero. 13. In 1916 he joined the army, returning to the sea after the War. Onetime stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, post man. Author Hanley knows the proletariat of which he writes. His writing induces nausea in some readers?Hugh Walpole leading the hue & cry with a public shriek of horror?but causes in others a vehement banner-waving. Among the banner men are Thomas Edward Shaw (Col. Lawrence), Richard Aldington, John Cowper Powys. Laboriously punting upstream...
Before a U. S. tourist can consume more than three saucers' worth of refreshment* at a Montparnasse cafe nowadays he is sure to hear something about Man Ray, a kinky-haired photographer who has become a leader of Paris's left bank intelligentsia. The first one-man showing of his prints opened at Manhattan's Julien Levy Gallery last week...