Beneath the stylish prose and the incisive, fluent engagement with subjects of worldly intellectual talk lie subterranean debts that obliquely reveal other preoccupations.
"I wanted it to be like a European magazine, a space where you could expect pleasure and intellectual talk of both politics and art, of sex as well as money".
Mr. Pinard, a silver-haired man who still burns with resentment over the day half a century ago when a schoolmate taunted him with an insulting French term for homosexual, decided to denounce "Piment Fort" on an intellectual talk show.
But when I'm running I listen to the Bookworm podcast from KCRW; it's better than music because if you get, say, Van Halen on shuffle it ups your pace too much, whereas if you've got an intellectual talking to you for 30 minutes you'll keep steadier.
You could go intellectual, talk slowly and longingly about the nuances of love and wear sensible cardigans, Oxford shirts, desert boots and leather flight jackets.
Race was mentioned a few other times in the episode after the cold open, once in a talk show called "How's He Doing?" featuring Thompson, Pharoah and Washington as "nonpartisan" black intellectual talking heads addressing the likelihood that President Obama would ever lose their support (answer: highly unlikely).
Fascist intellectuals talked an anti-bourgeois line, it is true.
It made me wonder if what our public intellectuals talk about and what happens when we read fiction are, in fact, closely related.
She would not have gone without Philip, and he would not have gone at all, probably because he doesn't believe the rubbish intellectuals talk – you know the rest.
The Roman rooftop terrace parties in "The Great Beauty" show a culture that is blocked, resigned, embalmed in elegant decline, where some seek religion and others cocaine, and intellectuals talk endlessly about what's wrong and yet inertia overwhelms all forward momentum.
