BOBO refers to the modern romantic petty bourgeoisie, but also the upper class intellectuals in society.
It records the happy gathering of the intellectuals, and shows that Wang had brought his calligraphy ability into full play during the gathering.
By the end of the century these intellectuals were busying themselves with such important matters as disapproving of the re-emergence of the word, now as a verb—recruiter—into the French language.
Nationalist intellectuals use the language of the 1930s to rail against foreign capital and "cosmopolitan" influences.
It is a bit too easy for people in the West to deplore the failure of intellectuals living in unfree societies to follow the example of a Solzhenitsyn.
Secularism was not as modern as many intellectuals imagined, but pluralism is.
In the late Soviet era, aspirations for Ukrainian independence were confined to a group of dissident writers and intellectuals.
We encourage intellectuals to go among the masses, to go to factories and villages.
If but a small part of Mme. Curie's strength of character and devotion were alive in Europe's intellectuals, Europe would face a brighter future.
City intellectuals know little about rural affairs and peasant psychology, and they never can solve the peasants' problems in quite the right way.
Such blatant nonsense could be told to the ignorant self-styled intellectuals of Russia who prided themselves on being the vanguard of Marxism and thereby of progress and civilization.
Nigerian writers and intellectuals, he says, had entered into a "new and terrifying phase", in that independence seemed "without substance.
Snow's central thesis was that shifting attitudes had caused a polarization between intellectuals of these two great culture streams.
