Word: intelligentsia
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...long after the Bolsheviks had seized power in 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin filled out a bureaucratic questionnaire. For occupation, he wrote "man of letters." So it was that a son of the Russian intelligentsia, a radical straight from the pages of Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed, became the author of mass terror and the first concentration camps ever built on the European Continent...
...have heard that IOP committees do wonderful work, but for part of this discussion at least, the IOP seemed to affirm that the Jerry Springer Show carries more weight than the news. In this country, a fissure is growing between the intelligentsia and the ruling gentlemen's club, and most people more often than not feel neglected by those on either side of the canyon. Various institutions are capable of bridging the gap in socially beneficial ways--universities, for example. As a prominent university political organization, the IOP ought to give more thought to its role on campus. Chump...
...Anything they do they're going to put 'reform' on the end of it," he said. "All the intelligentsia urges this process on, [but] once you run out of money, [your candidate] is toast--butter...
Prominent members of the liberal intelligentsia are launching new attacks on the SAT, questioning its basic assumption that intelligence can be measured digitally. Nicholas Lemann, who is finishing a book delineating the rise of the American "meritocracy," argues that the SAT-focused admissions system magnifies inequalities in public schools by keeping low scorers from prominent careers; he also says it fails to evaluate a student's character. "Numerical measurement isn't the answer to everything in life," Lemann says. Law professor Lani Guinier co-authored a California Law Review article last year arguing that because standardized tests don't anticipate...
...foundered, Hillary largely shut out overtures from the Beltway's Democratic intelligentsia, including women who had joined the Administration in large part because of her. A top Administration woman says of the First Lady, "She doesn't travel with her peers." Says Morris: "She's very headstrong and very stubborn, and ultimately very brittle." Her bitterness would occasionally seep out. At the Democratic Convention she told the Arkansas delegation that a friend had told her she would have everything but the kitchen sink thrown at her. "Well," she said, "I just...