The accustomed way of telling stories here had been through the perspective of upper-middle-class intellectuals, civil servants, those with public functions whose job it is to "save the poor from themselves," "enlighten" and "educate" them.
Traditional Roman Catholic society was still strong, if under attack from a minority of intellectuals and civil servants.
When Barry Sautman, a political scientist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, surveyed Chinese students, intellectuals, and civil servants in 1992, he asked them to rank various foreign groups by intelligence, industriousness, and other virtues.
ReprintsD-66, which managed to win only 9% in that poll but is beloved by many Dutch intellectuals and civil servants, was happily steering a bill through parliament that would have enabled the Dutch to hold "corrective referendums" to let them amend and even veto parliamentary legislation by direct vote.
While the Shah's opponents were politically diverse, ranging from Communists to intellectuals to civil servants, "Khomeini's clerical lieutenants came to dominate the movement, and Khomeini emerged as its undisputed leader".
One of his last speeches, held in front of the Academy and witnessed by both Carol, who had since become King of Romania, and his wife Elisabeth of Wied, was a summary of his entire career as a politician, intellectual, and civil servant.
A political anarchist and an all-purpose gadfly, he ran for mayor of New York in 1933 (Fiorello LaGuardia won), and founded an intellectual magazine for civil servants that lasted one issue.
"There was at least in some regions a police of physical extermination on the worst of the class enemies – army and police officers and, less certainly, civil servants and intellectuals.
Explain this to wine producers, says Mr Kapetanovic, and they become less interested in backing their own ethnic leadership.Mr Kapetanovic has now begun a drive to organise a new cadre of "partisans": key civil servants, businessmen, intellectuals, journalists and activists keen to get into the EU.
"It engulfs all classes — intellectuals, students, mullahs, bazaaris, civil servants, teachers, peasants.
