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In 1901, it took considerable courage to proclaim your atheism in an English-speaking country; a century later, non-belief had become (within the intelligentsia, at least) largely unexceptional.

Experiencing this a few years ago was richly surreal, as the city celebrated its past as centre of the governmental intelligentsia at the same time as it draped its scrupulously restored older buildings with the trappings of hypermodernity.

All the students we invited to meet the intelligentsia at evening gatherings of La Fonte Maggiore, a society devoted to the arts, whose president, the Marchese Uguccione Ramiene di Sorbella, is shortly going to N. Y. to start a cultural center there under the auspices of the Italian government.

LIBERAL INTELLIGENTSIA At a time when the primary meaning of intelligence has moved in some minds from "the capacity to acquire knowledge" to "the secrets we are spending billions of dollars a year on to learn," the Russo-English word intelligentsiya is making a comeback.

It's a brave new world, the Internet of Things, and marketers will be the sages, the pioneers, and the intelligentsia at its epicenter.

Although the grammar of written classical Chinese differs from the language spoken then or now, and it is neither systematic nor complete, one shouldn't think it was consciously put together by some particularly clever language-oriented members of the Chinese intelligentsia at a particular place and time long ago, as Jacob Gohl did (Duyvendak 1936: 6).

At the time there was a growing movement to attract native intelligentsia, educated at schools run by the Dutch colonial government, and convince them to view domestic films, which were generally considered to be of much lower quality than imported Hollywood productions.

The contract under which the intelligentsia barked at the state and the state occasionally hit back but continued to provide support was broken.

"Culture is an axis of diplomacy that was practiced by any number of autocratic regimes, Hitler as well as Stalin," said Lorraine de Meaux, one of the two curators of the "Intelligentsia" exhibition at the École des Beaux Arts, which closed last week.

He and his friend Bronislaw Geremek, a historian, persuaded 64 leading intellectuals, scholars, scientists and cultural figures to sign a petition that read in part: "In this struggle the place of the entire progressive intelligentsia is at their side.

The liberal intelligentsia, headquartered at the BBC and the Guardian, was only too willing to give these obviously talented people a voice, since any programme or features page that included them was bound to attract attention.