Word: intelligentsia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glowing vision of union is not quite matched in Egypt. On a recent high-pressure, two-week visit to Egypt to plump the plan, the Libyan leader discovered that his proposed partner had become recalcitrant, if not downright hostile. Everywhere he went, Gaddafi locked horns with the Egyptian intelligentsia, engaging in heated arguments on everything from Arab unity and Islamic tolerance to Libyan xenophobia. A nonsmoker and nondrinker, Gaddafi has closed all nightclubs and bars in Libya and restored the practice of amputations for thievery-measures which Egyptians hardly want to see extended to their country...
...other part of the film's importance is due to the politics surrounding it. In Z, Costa-Gavras won the love of the liberal and left intelligentsia for his condemnation of Greek fascism. The liberals stayed with him through the anti-Stalinist Confession, but many further to the left criticized it as too concerned with so-called humanist questions rather than political questions. As a result, all of the straight-line CP actors left State of Siege early on in the filming...
...said attempts at democracy are limited by the "systematic policy of destroying the great part of the Czech intelligentsia" Pelikan explained...
...generally, the facility with which faculty move from Cambridge to Washington implies a crass and widespread misuse of Harvard's prestige. The incentives drawing Harvard professors to Washington do not exclusively center on self-improvement (greed), but the desperation with which those men cling to the prestigious designation "Cambridge intelligentsia" probably does...
...matter what we did, individually or collectively. We thought students had attained a position of strength and influence; in another time and place, perhaps that would have been true. But it was a narrow-based movement then, eliciting only limited support beyond the left-liberal American intelligentsia. What is so frightening is that now, with the base of support broadened ten-fold, we have re-elected a President who declares publicly, "Decision-makers can't be affected by current opinion, by TV barking at you and commentators banging away with the idea that World War III is coming because...