Like the intellectuals surrounding Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, he wanted to combine the freedom and dynamism of a capitalist democracy with economic security for the masses and a degree of social justice.
Similarly, what became the Reagan coalition was given considerable intellectual ballast by a group of New York intellectuals surrounding ex-Trotskyite Irving Kristol, for whom the hippy counter-culture, Black Power and later the women's and environmental movement demonstrated the infantilism and nihilism of the New Left.
8. (C) Aliyev said that he considers Medvedev "a modern, new-generation intellectual," surrounded by people whom he does not control.
But had he stayed longer, it would have been harder for Benedict to maintain his profile as an unworldly intellectual, surrounded by scheming careerists; it would be have been harder to deny his own share of responsibility for the mess.
But in a long and eventually published letter to his fellow-writer Jerzy Andrzejewski, one of a series composed in 1942 and 1943, he speaks in a sterner, more immediate voice, that of a Roman Catholic intellectual surrounded by horror, at the heart of a moral catastrophe, in occupied Poland, which the Germans themselves called "the cloaca of the world".
Dr. Markel is a professor of medical history at the University of Michigan and the author of books that include "When Germs Travel" and "Quarantine!" He relates the story of Vin Mariani as a way of indicating the intellectual mania surrounding cocaine, an intoxicant new to the United States and Europe, in the second half of the 19th century.
Ranging from Pietro Aretino's merciless lampoons of the scandalous lives of the princes of the church in Renaissance Rome to the mysticism and Christocentric piety embraced by the intellectual circle surrounding the Spanish humanist Juan de Valdés in Naples, Italian culture in the 16th century defined itself for or against the church.
This article is a provocative tour of the intellectual landscape surrounding the role of science and scientists in international relations.
The continuing intellectual crisis surrounding identity politics paradoxically marks its importance to contemporary political philosophy and practice.
The fate of Geron, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company that owns much of the intellectual property surrounding stem cells and animal cloning, will probably never be entirely separate from that of its former chief executive, Michael West Michael West.
The intellectual debates surrounding digital dissemination that are flourishing at Goldsmiths will inform practical digital dissemination strategies that the University as a whole will adopt in future.
