Word: intelligentsia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...
...arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...
...English, the ivory (mostly opaque plastic) figurines from the Chinese, and the vineyards from northern Italy. There's no homegrown movie business; in fact the town has missed the video age, focused instead on grainy foreign films, which seem to be unreeling in every theater. Although the smug intelligentsia of Stanford and Berkeley blanch at the mention of her name, the area's best-selling author is Danielle Steel. To be sure, Los Angeles is no stranger to mass-market novelists, but that kind of pedestrian vulgarity is increasingly overwhelmed by the energy, quality and variety of the town...
...they also see around them the signs of renewal for Soviet Jewry -- the gradual reopening of Jewish schools and cultural centers, the increasing attendance at synagogues -- and a new push for democracy in the aftermath of last month's failed coup. "I am a member of the Russian intelligentsia," says Nemov, "and my place is here...
...there are occasional foreign words, and once in a while the author's geniality shades into coyness. But it is also true that the South of France has been a favorite stamping ground for British vacationers for generations now; many of the intelligentsia have bought houses. It just may be that Mayle has committed the unpardonable sin of making money out of simple material that was available...