Pride in building the country and particularly the distinction of being part of the intellectual elite are more important than rewards or lifestyle.
Somehow... the idea of the public plan became the sine qua non of meaningful reform for a very vocal portion of the Democratic intellectual elite.
And they are tackling it without the benefit of an intellectual elite that has spent years considering different models of political and economic organization, as had early American or French revolutionary activists, or many Eastern European dissidents in the 1970s and '80s.
"What we are seeing, really, is the inevitable converging of two Turkish societies: rural, Muslim Anatolia and elite, intellectual, secular Istanbul, " Zeynep says.
The irony was that the Democrats, responding in part to the shock he had administered, became increasingly a party of the elite and intellectual rather than the working man.
This elite club is intended for intellectual jousting and meeting like-minded players.
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Mr. SNYDER: Much of the poetry in the mid-'50s was in a kind of neoformalist and academic mode that was very tame and highly intellectual and spoke to a small and elite audience.
President Armando Guebuza, once a Marxist intellectual and now a figure close to the business elite, won the 2009 election with 75% of the vote.
Their faith provides them with a means of judging reality that is independent of the largely post-religious intellectual commissariat that runs the media and the cultural elite in the Western world.
People who go to Princeton or another elite university have a revealed preference for education and intellectual development.
Reforms undertaken partly to meet demands for EU membership have shifted power from threat-obsessed generals to civilian institutions, and to a new, more self-consciously Muslim elite rooted in Anatolia rather than Istanbul, Turkey's Western-looking commercial and intellectual capital.
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