Word: intelligentsiae
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...questionnaires so astutely that he got a position in the Edison laboratories, specializing in lighting. To the cinema studios then went he and invented special lighting effects for Gloria Swanson's The Humming Bird. Drifting to New Orleans, he became manager of a Little Theatre, hobnobbed with the intelligentsia of Tulane University. Somebody told him he should be an artist. So Douglas Brown became an artist. Scorning art schools, he invented his own technique. Scorning easels, palettes and other effete appurtenances, he paints crosslegged on the ground with his picture on a piece of cardboard...
...present welter of things, "Krish-naji sees something saner and finer emerging and a rather soul-sick intelligentsia turn to the astonishing and uncanny vitality of this stripling-scholar, not for bromidic guesswork, but for a bracing challenge to women and men to shake off ''bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell " and stand on their own feet...
...pleasanter to take a large number of hours in these than in other courses, the obvious inference is that Princeton will produce our politicians, and Harvard our businessmen. Inasmuch as Yale finds English still the most popular subject, she might be expected to produce a merely cultured intelligentsia. That would be division of labor on a large scale...
Yale will be led by Saunders MacLane and John F. Bell, president and secretary, respectively, of the Eli chapter. It is likely that these two will form the opposing battery. A. W. Samborski '26, Director of Intramural Athletics has offered to umpire the game so that the battling intelligentsia will have the benefit of experienced judgment. That the two fraternities are a bit ashamed of the baseball they might exhibit was shown by the fact that they were both reticent about publicity...
...space with his own paintings. There are palm trees and parrots in the pantry, a dado of chimpanzees climbs up the stairs, round the walls of the yellow dining room stalks a procession of tall Mexican goddesses with bird heads. Night after night these rooms were filled with the intelligentsia, the talking, drinking, reciting, bright people of an inner world, while Bob Chanler sat on the floor, disheveled and benign like Praxiteles' Zeus...