Instead, they would pursue dialogue, intellectualism, non-judgmentalism, and appeasement. He tends to dominate conversations with his aggressive intellectualism and theories about modern culture. Harvard Square had become known for leftist intellectualism and protest throughout the 1960s and 1970s. One explanation of this intellectualism is that he was once a philosopher. She provided an ironic counterpoint to Brian's intellectualism. Criticism centered on the cold intellectualism of the film. They were the core of ancient intellectualism; Ephesus, Smyrna and Athens. She was of the animal race that owes nothing to intellectualism. In adapting the novel, Towne removed Buddusky's "closet intellectualism and his beautiful wife".