Word: literati
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...third culture was taken from a newly-wiped-down table at C'est Bon in the Barker Center. Clean and comfortable, C'est Bon serves as refuge for aspiring hungry literati and displaced scientists wishing to escape the scourges of sick-building syndrome. Barker seems clean from afar, but with so many coming and going, are there microscopic visitors left behind...
...spent February of 1969 on the telephone, interviewing the media literati for his senior thesis...
Isaacson is Harvard, surrounding himself with former classmates and applying lessons learned in college to his work. He is also New York literati, known for hobnobbing with celebrities and appearing in the society pages...
Often the groups of people that students choose to associate with derive from artificial and arbitrary categories. These categories are frequently linked to the extracurricular activities that we pursue--for example, students will characterize themselves as jocks, IOP/U.C. politicos, Crimson editors, Diversity and Distinction literati, musicians, a capella junkies or PBHA do-gooder types...
Manhattan in the 1920s had the Algonquin RoundTable, where members of the literati gathered toswap witty epigrams and drink martinis at theAlgonquin Hotel...