Gingrich's reputation as an intellectual, taken as an article of faith in Republican circles and much of the news media, is nuts.
But Mr. Petraeus, who would develop a reputation "as a schemer, a self-promoter and, worst of all, an intellectual," took an autodidact's approach to a subject that fascinated him.
"Dr. Bonilla was this high-powered intellectual taking the lead in bringing together key institutions," said Félix Matos Rodríguez, the president of Hostos Community College in the Bronx and a former director of the Puerto Rican research center.
As the artist strolled along the terraced stone buildings in Mardin, "a local intellectual took me," he said, "to the house of one of the remaining Syriac Christians, or Syriani, as we call them".
I want to, as a public intellectual, take a fresh look at the news that we take in daily from TV, news that is astonishingly empty and distorts reality".
So we have the picture of a kind of intellectual taking to pieces of ideas or concepts; the discovering of what elements a concept or idea is composed and how they are related.
His set, on Beatport Riverside on Friday, might just be the most intellectual take on dance at the whole festival.
Intellectual: Take a class in a different subject then normal, write essays on topics that require research, and push beyond the minimum for projects and assignments.
Most of Mr. Morogiello's exploration of love among the intellectuals takes place at the Stratford, England, summer cottage of Shaw's friends and fellow socialist activists Beatrice and Sidney Webb (played in fine detail by Helen Mutch and Marc Geller).
The report issued by a group of Arab intellectuals takes to task the United States and Israel for impeding the democratic process in Iraq and the Palestinian territories, areas controlled by Israel and the United States.
