We can count on stupidity, willful ignorance, and intellectual sloth to plague us 100percentt of the time.
Toni Morrison declared, after having read it, that Coates filled the "intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died".
They could certainly do a lot worse than Coates, whose book has already been lauded by Toni Morrison ("I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died"), and helped him to win a prestigious MacArthur "genius" award.
"I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died.
Baldwin has been a flashpoint in early discussions of the book, with Toni Morrison providing the blurb of a lifetime on the back: "I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died.
Trade dress and intellectual property challenges are plagues visited on other industries, of course, from fashion and software to candy.
The most serious intellectual deficit that has plagued the American presence in Iraq — and a crucial reason for our repeated failure to predict Iraqis' behavior — has been insufficient awareness of the conflicting perspectives of Iraqis from different backgrounds and communities.
While patronage and demand for images of religious content declined, Holbein flourished as court painter for King Henry VIII, producing woodcuts, glass and other decorative designs, and timeless portraits of the intellectual aristocracy, until his death of the plague in 1543 (3).
Otherwise, that copy of The Plague you bought for your intellectual history class might mean that amazon will recommend every Camus book.
In consequence, some of Camus's intellectual contemporaries did not particularly care for The Plague.
