It was, nevertheless, a period of intellectual ferment.
This period may be a counterpoint to the intellectual ferment of the 1960s and '70s.
Mr. Kurzweil was projecting based on the scientific and intellectual ferment of the time.
It stoked the intellectual ferment that led to the Tiananmen movement of 1989.
The late Roman Republic, despite its turmoil, was a period of remarkable intellectual ferment.
He lived in a moment of prosperity, relative political stability and intellectual ferment.
This intellectual ferment has upended life in that formerly cozy preserve known as the corporate boardroom.
The retrieved thesis nevertheless helped renew intellectual ferment among game-theorists, recalls Peyton Young, now at Oxford University.
AMONG the students who decided to enter the priesthood during this era of intellectual ferment was Father Schüller.
What is emerging, however, is less chorus than cacophony -- or, from another perspective, voices rising in rich intellectual ferment.
He failed to create the kind of intellectual ferment that successful parties need, yet nobody was sharper in debate.
