In this essay he appealed to his fellow intellectuals not to fall for nationalistic madness and hatred.

His fellow intellectuals could neither abide nor comprehend him while, for his part, he regarded them and their feeble creations with utter disdain.

He could be demanding, of his students and his fellow intellectuals.

You go to conferences," he says, "and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment.

After the 1956 uprising, he refused to follow many fellow intellectuals into exile; and after his arrest in 1974, he rejected an invitation to emigrate.

That'd be in Vietnam or Laos, most likely the latter since that's where he and his fellow intellectuals went missing.

Whereas Serov was an acclaimed critic and composer, his relation with fellow intellectuals were sometimes far from ideal.

He regarded me, he said, as a fellow intellectual; someone who had a bit more education than most of these riff-raff'.

Mr. Singer was particularly fond of talking, joking and writing about the contradictions in the character of his fellow Jewish intellectuals.

"My dear fellow intellectuals," he said with evident sarcasm, "I am not going to make you ashamed of me."