Word: intelligentsia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survived only by a miracle or an oversight, which is the same thing," says Nadezhda Mandelstam, who at 74 is one of the last relics of a class once respectfully known as the Russian intelligentsia. For 50 years she has lived and suffered in the shadow of her famous husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in one of Stalin's prison camps during the winter of 1938. Two years ago Mrs. Mandelstam introduced herself to the West with Hope Against Hope, a book-never published in the Soviet Union-that established her as one of the great memoirists...
...England cities is not a battleground for Democrats and Republicans. It is a watering-hole for two feuding machines: the "independents" and the "reformers." But then, Cambridge is not your every-day run-of-the-mill cities. It is a diverse, and sometimes bizarre mixture of working class and intelligentsia, of black and white, of ethnics of rooted and rootless, and Yankees, and of separate communities that lack any common link but their unification into a single suburban city...
...freshman year I struggled to prove that the two were compatible. But maybe they aren't. Clipped consonants and brassy vowels being the mark of the intelligentsia, my polysyllabic pronunciation of single vowels had to change. In order to be accepted as an intellectual equal, Southern women must learn to enunciate as quickly and sharply as their Northern counterparts. Southernisms such as "Are ya'll goin' to the show?" must become "Are you guys going to the movies?" In social situations, Southern women with thick or even moderate accents are victims of good-natured bantering, but the assumptions underlying...
Thus, the second impulse in the scenario is the moral relativism which we have inherited from the sixties. It is the inheritance of an era which apotheosized those who destroyed and defiled under the aegis of a higher morality. It is also the inheritance of a press and an intelligentsia which defended the thesis: if the end is noble enough, unusual and base means may be utilized for its attainment...
...David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan wrote that Sakharov is "stirring up the dying coals of the cold war." Dmitri Shostakovich, who once praised Stalin for his "wise and delicate" musical advice, joined Aram Khachaturian and other composers in accusing Sakharov of debasing "the honor and dignity of the Soviet intelligentsia." Scientists, writers, even farmers and factory workers chimed in with other messages of accusation against the two dissidents...