31. I remind them that intelligent people discuss issues, not each other.
32. If anything, he says, the mavens and schoolmarms have made ordinarily intelligent people so self- conscious about their grammar that they overcompensate.
33. In other words, they want to be treated not just like stars but like intelligent people as well.
34. Intelligent people sometimes speak and act irrationally.
35. Intelligent people are particularly suited to this task.
36. Intelligent people discuss whether old shoes or old closets burn better to heat an apartment.
37. Intelligent people would go on reading them.
38. Intelligent people sometimes make mistakes.
39. Instead it leads largely to a defense of prejudice by presumably intelligent people.
40. It is frustrating that so many otherwise intelligent people should be so naive and unsophisticated about art and metaphor.