They were then allowed to mate in a pen strewn with books, while invited intellectuals watched and, Mr. Xu recalls, excitedly discussed cross-cultural ironies.
He had invited intellectuals into their family home throughout his childhood – men and women who would challenge the boys from an early age.
King Frederick II had invited foreign intellectuals and scientists, such as Maupertuis, d'Alembert, La Mettrie, Voltaire, Lagrange, and Euler to the academy, and they had little patience with their speculative German colleagues.
Jewish academies could never invite German intellectuals and scholars to their conferences; Jewish music lovers would be expected to boycott concerts with German orchestras; and Jews could never, ever befriend Germans, no matter how long after the war they were born.
The debate is over and the time for action is now," he told an invited audience of intellectuals and spiritual leaders from all faiths.
Investors are invited to bridge any intellectual, financial or technological gap.
Hoja suggested a place and the scholar, eager for intellectual conversation, invited Hoja to join him.
The town had invited prominent artists and intellectuals to assume control of the government.
In April of 1957, the Communist Party launched the Hundred Flowers campaign, during which intellectuals were invited to speak their minds, however critical.
Two American women, a reporter and a photographer, were invited, not as official intellectuals, but as privileged guests seated on his right, among those being honored.
