When Ms Nunez first met Sontag in 1976, the author was already that rare specimen in America: a public intellectual.

1976年努涅斯初遇桑塔格时，后者已经是美国为数不多的公共知识分子之一。

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His 1958 debut novel, Things Fall Apart, had made him a literary celebrity abroad and an influential public intellectual at home.

1958年的处女作《崩溃》令他在国外文学界一举成名，同时还令他在国内成为了一名具有影响力的公共知识分子。

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In recent years, with the development of news commentary, the relation between "public intellectual" and media has been closer.

近年来，随着新闻评论的日益勃兴，“公共知识分子”与媒体的关系越来越密切。

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"Dewey was perhaps the best known philosopher, educator and public intellectual of the twentieth century.

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But WHO says its issue is not intellectual property rights, but public health.

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Another is just how in demand he was as a writer, speaker and all-around public intellectual.

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He rightly saw himself as a public intellectual as much as a private consultant.

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She soon came to epitomise a creature now threatened with extinction: the public intellectual.

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