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[in-tel'-i-JENT-see-ah, in-tel'-i-GENT-see-ah] 
1. the intellectual elite of a society, considered as a group or class: "The congressman's long held adoration of professional wrestling had always prevented him from being taken seriously by the intelligentsia of Washington."
Origin:
Approximately 1908; from Russian, 'intelligentsiya'; from Latin, 'intelligentia': intelligence. In Action:
"Although he graduated at the top of his class, he felt something of an outsider as a poor man surrounded by children of the French elite, and that feeling continued even as he became part of the French intelligentsia. 'A lot of what I've done has been in reaction to the �cole Normale,' he said in an interview with The New York Times a year ago. 'I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual. I was horrified by that world.'"
Alan Riding. "Pierre Bourdieu, 71, French Thinker and Globalization Critic," The New York Times (January 25, 2002).
"Consider what Time Magazine wrote of the Volkswagen in 1964: 'It is as though Bing Crosby came to a party in a polo-neck sweater: he can afford to do so, for everyone knows that he has a dozen dinner jackets in his wardrobe at home...A young mechanic only needs to scramble into a VW, and put on a golf cap, and he immediately passes as a Harvard student...The acquisition of a VW automatically makes the buyer into a member of the intelligentsia.'"
David Kiley. Getting The Bugs Out: The Rise, Fall and Comeback of Volkswagen in America (2001).
"We are talking about a potentially devastating crisis situation in which our society will express nostalgia for events which have yet to occur," Williams told reporters...
Nowhere is the impending retro crisis more apparent, Williams said, than in the area of popular music. 'To the true retrophile, disco parties and the like were common 10 years ago. Similarly, retro-intelligentsia have long viewed 'New Wave' and even late-'80s hair-metal retro as pass� and no longer amusing as kitsch,' Williams said. 'We now face the unique situation of '90s retro, as evidenced by the current Jane's Addiction reunion tour: nostalgia for the decade in which we live.'"
U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out of Past,' The Onion.com. | |
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