Word: intelligentsia
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...robotic look of the soldiers, suggest that Picasso had also been looking at American sci-fi comic strips. It isn't clear who the killers are, and the naked victims don't look at all Asian; every Marxist in France (which in 1951 meant most of the French intelligentsia) assumed that the painting was a denunciation of some unspecified American war crime...
Thus both of these students question fathom that "double consciousness" or that "multi-consciousness" that biracial educated persons of Black/White parentage have dealt with since the birth of the African-American intelligentsia in the 19th century. Henry Gates notes in an article on Frederick Douglass in the New York Times Book Review (May 28, 1995) how, in several versions of his attempt at an autobiography, Douglass emphasized the fact that his father was a white slave owner in one autobiographical version while, in another version, he emphasized the importance of his Black mother to his quest for a viable personhood...
Patriot Richard Pombo leads the counter-revolution in Congress through his quest to save the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) from the unyielding torments of the liberal intelligentsia...
...book argued that of all the Communist Party's errors, the most serious was its failure to deal with the vast, impoverished countryside and the 700 million mostly poor peasants. It charged the intelligentsia with forgetting how to think. Most shocking, it asked directly whether the post-Deng leadership should adopt some of Mao Zedong's more centralized policies...
...According to his supporters, who gathered last week to celebrate his release from prison, he's the first underground hero of the Information Age, the Robin Hood of cyberspace. Arrested two years ago in a federal crackdown on computer break-ins, he became a cause celebre among the Net intelligentsia: a master hacker jailed not only for what he did but also for what he knew...