Malik has acquiesced, but acquiescence breeds rage.
Gradually, acquiescence to legal conventions about intellectual property became a matter of natural convenience and flexibility.
For him, meditation was turbulent rather than serene, and belief was a matter of intellectual and emotional struggle rather than of simple acquiescence or platitudinous certitude.
The moral responsibility of intellectuals -- and what he regards as their general acquiescence in oppression -- has been a building theme in Mr. Yu's essays.
He had the ultimate in fuck-you money — and in make-nice money, too: the largesse his private philanthropy has showered upon New York's charities and artistic and educational institutions purchased the support, or, at worst, the acquiescence, of the city's cultural and, to some extent, intellectual élites.
This moment, he declares, has been chosen to denounce intellectuals who preach its impossibility, providing a rationale for their own political acquiescence.
But the government's acquiescence came in part because of the library itself, a modern reincarnation of an ancient intellectual center that was rebuilt and re-opened in 2001, a one-shot effort to rekindle the kind of scholarship that centuries ago put Egypt at the forefront of science and learning.
But as staged by the director, Christopher McElroen, and acted by a competent but rarely inspired cast, the protagonist's brooding journey from naïve belief to disillusion, from acquiescence in an unjust social order to seething rebellion against it, rarely generates the emotional (and intellectual) heat that sometimes stings your fingers when you read the book.
A Beijing academic, Cui Weiping, told a gathering of intellectuals called to commemorate it that the party's campaign to deter public discussion of Tiananmen, and public acquiescence to it, had damaged China's "spirit and morality".
