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To describe someone as an intellectual is not to identify his occupation but rather the social class, determined by his education, to which he belongs. Thus, the modern intellectual’s social milieu is his professional audience as well, a powerful determinant of what he thinks and what he says — and what he thinks he ought to think and say, as well. The same goes, of course, for his friends, family, and audience: they know what he should be thinking and saying — and what they ought to hear from him, aloud and in print — even before it occurs to him to think and say it.
— Chilton Williamson, Jr.
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In 1803, the U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
In 1944, Soviet and Yugoslav forces drove the German army from Belgrade.
In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee began its investigation into communist infiltration of Hollywood.
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