Word: intelligentsia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DEBASEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA...
...intelligentsia! The term is one that Russians most love to argue over. Yet it is used in widely different ways, and its very vagueness tends greatly to diminish the value of their conclusions. The writers of Vekhi defined the intelligentsia not in terms of the level or nature of their education but according to their ideology. They were a sort of new, religionless, humanist order...
...beginning of the '30s, even the technical intelligentsia had been reduced to total submission. It was also well-schooled in treachery. It learned to vote obediently for whatever penalties were demanded. When one brother was annihilated, another brother would dutifully step into his shoes. By this time, there was no command so amoral that the Russian intelligentsia would not have obsequiously rushed to execute...
...should like to make two points concerning the ongoing controversy between certain African-American faculty members and administrators. First, if the level of debate between Professors Kilson and Guinier is a reflection of the African-American intelligentsia's grasp and articulation of the African-American situation, it is little wonder that street-and-prison-educated people have consistently filled the ranks of the African-American leadership since the death of W.E.B. DuBois...
...context of efforts we have made in the past 30 years. This effort was tremendous. More than 6 million Poles were killed in World War II; 40% of our property lay in ruins. Also it should be remembered that during the war Poland lost most of its intelligentsia. These past years have really been difficult ones, a period of belt tightening and building, building, building from scratch. The only country that came to our assistance with concrete, tangible help was the Soviet Union, and I am not saying this as a Communist, but as a Polish patriot. Now Poland ranks...