Word: intelligentsia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Because the world experience mirrored in recent novels is so limited, so confined to the regions of intuition and feeling shared among a disconsolate intelligentsia, the reader is deprived of those qualities to which his addition owes its sources: qualities resembling the vision which induced a Hasidic rabbi to put on spectacles when in meditation, "for otherwise he saw all the individual things of the world...
...could have, these volumes reside on the shelves like orphans; and I act as their self-appointed guardian. What justifies such a posture? The conviction that Rosenfeld's novel, Passage From Home, identifies taxonomies of natural phenomena which coincide with mine: Chicago, the lives of the Jewish urban intelligentsia, family sorrow; that in the journalistic, feuilleton-like reflections of literature collected in The Age of Enormity, a musuem of modern life has been opened where the meditations of a typical educated reader in our time await inspection; and that the stories. Alpha and Omega, reverberate with an awareness of that...
Smoke. Yet as Saigon's intelligentsia anticipates a cease-fire as all but inevitable, South Vietnamese peasants were not so sure that the years of fighting would ever end. In a hamlet in Binh Duong province, a middle-aged woman sat in front of a hut that had sheltered her family until North Vietnamese soldiers dug bunkers near by and South Vietnamese airplanes bombed the enemy-and her house. "Peace? A ceasefire? Look at our house. This is peace?" she scoffed. Predicted a farmer about both sides: "They will just keep fighting and fighting, while the people stay...
...obvious level The Inspector General is a satire on the czarist government and Russia's corrupt bureaucracy. It appealed to Casr Nicholas for some reason, and he ordered it performed, so Gogol never has any difficulty with the censors. The literary critics of the intelligentsia praised it for its social content, though Gogol minimized that facet of The Inspector General. He attempted to explain the play himself, always a dangerous course for a writer to take in relation to his own production. Vladimir Nabokov commented that this interpretation might well be considered "the kind of deceit that is practiced...
...BEST REMAINING SOURCE Burg and Feifer possessed was the dissident intelligentsia composed of Solzhenitsyn's companions and allies. For whatever their reasons, these people were willing to talk, and they knew Solzhenitsyn's struggles with the government best. Hence, the bulk of the book concentrates on Solzhenitsyn since the early '60's. The authors focus on how he reaches the public: through bureaucratic labyrinths, through the even more nebulous and confused channels of samizdat (reproduction of manuscripts on typewriters and mimeograph machines), and through publication abroad. They also recount his personal harassment by authorities, his brief spell in political favor...