Intellectuals are often remembered with admiration, but only occasionally with affection.
The social critic William Burroughs once bluntly declared that "intellectuals are deviants in the U.S". (It doesn't help that intellectuals are often as full of themselves as of ideas.
Which was on the way out by the time he got here, but he still found time to ask Edith Sitwell a couple of searching questions and give us a quick, vivid character sketch (as was often the case, and may still be, the anglophone colonial intellectual is often a better, if more conservative, guardian of English-language culture than the native).
Britain is a country in which the word "intellectual" is often preceded by the sneering adjective "so-called", where smart people are put down because they are "too clever by half" and where a cerebral politician (David Willetts) was for years saddled with the soubriquet "Two Brains".
Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: "Chaos theory," the '90s cocktail-party favorite of demi-intellectuals, was often summed up in the analogy of the Brazilian butterly whose wing-flutter causes a Malaysian monsoon.
It's a world where women's achievements, be they athletic or intellectual, are often perceived to be at odds with their ability to perform a particular kind of femininity.
The intellectual economy is often reliant on investment in physical capital.
An unavoidable response of the middle-class conscience to a poor society is the socialist intellectual, who is often supported by family inheritance.
Intellectual property is often the most coveted aspect of scientific research, and Esvelt's would be posted on a Web site.
Training for healthcare professionals in intellectual disability is often scant or non-existent.
