Word: intelligentsia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days following the tumultuous firings and resignations of East Germany's Cabinet and Politburo, there was virtually no word from the West's foreign policy intelligentsia. The silence continued for two days after the political dismantling of the Wall...
...immigrant legacy of belief in education and upward mobility." In 1983, when he was 26, Hwang suffered the sort of crisis of conscience that comes to many people whose success was quick and easy. "I lost belief in my subject matter -- I dismissed it as 'Orientalia for the intelligentsia' -- and virtually stopped writing for two years. I thought seriously about going to law school." After the anxiety passed, Hwang tried to broaden his horizons in Rich Relations, his first play not about Asians. To his disappointment but not surprise, critics took him to task. "There is in this country...
...broaden their movement beyond the campuses, the students framed their demands so they would appeal to workers and peasants as well as to the intelligentsia. In addition to their traditional demands for freedom of assembly and the press and greater "democracy," this time they pushed for a new campaign against government corruption -- an increasingly popular issue among the masses -- and for China's leaders to make public their personal financial holdings. "Many of these students took part in the 1986-87 protests," said a graduate of the University of Politics and Law who is now a government official. "They have...
...intellectual socialism," a reference to the flirtation with democracy and glasnost practiced by such journals as Ogonyok and Moscow News. The current debate, she wrote, focused on "whether or not to recognize the leading role of the party and the working class in socialist construction and in perestroika." The intelligentsia, she claimed, "almost as a force is hostile to socialism...
...situation is very grave, and it's a dreadful time to live, an enormous stock of malice has accumulated, oceans of worthless money, the fury of poverty, hunger and homelessness, of ethnic hostility and contempt -- all this is bursting forth from the depths and is being channeled against the intelligentsia, which have ungratefully forgotten that under the Genius of All Times and Peoples prices went down every year, there was order and every national group knew its place...