Word: intelligentsia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappointing to see Sanders only half full for the H.R.O.'s Christmas concert of modern music. If the poor attendance was in main due to the fact that the program consisted entirely of works composed in this century, then this speaks ill for Harvard's intelligentsia. Certainly the first and last pieces on the program by Samuel Barber and Manuel DeFalla could not possibly be considered "difficult" works and, to those familiar with Schoenberg's atonal period and the orchestral songs of Mahler, the Octandre by Edgar Varese, the French avant-garde composer and the Four Orchestra Songs...
...group has been very well chosen, representing several sectors of Soviet life, weighted perhaps toward the intelligentsia at the expense of the worker or agricultural areas. Perhaps for this reason several members of their delegation looked with apprehension at their next stop at Penn Yan, N.Y., a small farming community near Ithaca, although Voschinin, often the group's spokesman, said with a smile before leaving Cambridge, "I'm sure it will be interesting."Group leader, V ADIM LOGINOV 32, and accordion player, V LADIMIR FEDOSEYEV, 27, a music student in Moscow, seem to be enjoying themselves at the International Students...
Basically, the CCA represents what can easily be termed the "better elements" of the Cambridge community, the intelligentsia. Non-partisan in scope, the CCA preaches a goal of "Good City Government for Cambridge." Ideally, this vague phrase should stand for the best in American democracy--that is, an honest, efficient, and just administration--an objective the CCA says Cambridge deserves. Practically speaking, however, the phrase means something negative: to keep the traditional bossism, favoritism, and power politics out of Cambridge's city government...
Mackesey used a serious, simple approach, citing the advantages of football and accusing Thompson of "seeking headlines and looking at education with one eye." The intelligentsia in the audience waited its turn, then took over the question period with sedate challenges to the director of athletics. Mackesey handled several of them with terse quips, like "I don't see any football players wearing halos," in answer to a question about the alleged sanctity of Brown football...
...Russia itself and in the Eastern European satellites the Communist press seems to feel that the less said about Chinese communes the better. But the coffeehouse Communist intelligentsia of Warsaw, hearing of the communes, are repeating an old Polish Communist wheeze: "Thank God for the Soviet Union. We are lucky to have a buffer state between us and China...