An accomplished example of Allen's early style is "The Whore of Mensa," a 1974 casual about a private detective investigating an intellectual call-girl ring.
He often mentions a book edited by Michael Novak, the Catholic theologian and conservative intellectual, called "Democracy and Mediating Structures: A Theological Inquiry".
Summers said the extremist's invitations of support for Isis were intellectual calls, not incitements to violence, and there was no evidence anyone acted on them.
In an open letter to President François Hollande, France's most public intellectual called for measures, including a no-flight zone, to confront the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Bernard-Henri Lévy, a celebrity intellectual, called it "pornographic .Yet many French people, particularly women, are not sure that they like the look of the character who has emerged in recent months.
In the Reagan White House, full of gung-ho cold warriors, the book everyone read (according to speechwriter Peggy Noonan) was How Democracies Perish, by a gloomy, pretentious French intellectual called Jean-François Revel.
Between 948 and 950 he may have held a bishopric in Aachen, where he debated Christian ideas about the Trinity with a Jewish intellectual called Salomon, probably the Byzantine ambassador of that name.
One key feature of that racist oppression, Davis says, is what she and other leftist intellectuals call the "prison industrial complex", the tawdry if tacit alliance between capitalism and a structurally racist state.
LIZADONNELLY: Judy, you betcha IAN PARKER: Peter York, style commentator, on BBC, discussing Alexander McQueen: "He is what we intellectuals call dead" JUDITH: She does look lovely and happy and even he does QUESTION FROM BRONWYN : Just explained lamb to the slaughter to my 8-yr-old watching & reading along with me.
Rather than "angry youth," for instance, some young intellectuals call themselves the "April youth," referring to the month that their outrage boiled up, and referencing the student protests in Paris in 1968, whose uprising is still identified with the month of May.
