Word: intelligenzia
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...saudades of Brazil, the whole Continent weeps and regrets in music; the Indians on their flutes, made from a hollowed human tibia, weep for the Incas, Brazilian Negroes weep for Africa (though they have benefited considerably by their change), the gentlemen of fashion in Santiago weep for Piccadilly, the intelligenzia weep for Moscow, and lovely women for Paris...
This is all as it should be. There is an unnatural revolt sweeping the educated of the country, a revolt against Elks and parades, and all that they stand for. The intelligenzia have pointed out the sordid, unworthy facts that parades block traffic, that parading spoils the tempers of the Elks, who get all warm and pothered, and that the Freshmen ought to be studying anyway. But in these hard times there should be a return to the principles for which the Elks parade...
...Newman's work on Wagner lias for some time been known to the musical intelligenzia through the English edition. It is perhaps the first authoritative work to face frankly the facts of Wagner's life without malice and with a genuine admiration for both the man and his work, but with no effort to gloss the occasionally distasteful phases of the man's character...
...Coolidge Myth"-on which the political intelligenzia have been wasting much breath*-was summed up magnificently by a Manhattan Colyumnist...
...some years since Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, Italian master-pianist and modernist, startled the musical intelligenzia by advocating an entirely new musical scale. It was to be composed of quarter-tones, the pitch of each two adjacent tones being only half of what it is on a piano. It was then already noted that music played on a quarter-tone piano would only sound "out of tune"-and that this would be no novelty at all. Quarter-tone effects, it was added, were achieved by every Hawaiian guitar-player when he executed that lugubrious wailing slide along his seductively twanging strings...
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