Certainly, there is no inherent virtue in having read ali the latest books, nor in following intellectual fads and trends.

A few anthropologists suspect that post-modernism is no more than a buzz word and that the revisionist criticism could be only an intellectual fad.

Artistic and intellectual fads have, as a result, been treated with a circumspection that is the reward of being somewhat outside the limelight.

He states that it is an "intellectual fad, divorced from the concerns of ordinary people."

But keep your antennae up for intellectual fads and poisoned bait.

Effectively, this meant significant changes in Dionysius, who became sober and attentive, whereas his realm lived an intellectual fad.

Art is long; museum exhibitions, luckily, are relatively short, subject to various intellectual fads and staging trends, which is why they are such interesting symptoms.

So let's recognize this current enthusiasm for currency unification as what it is: an intellectual fad, not a deep insight.

The problem, it seems, is that postmodernism - the intellectual fad of the 1980's and, so far, the '90's - might be incompatible with leftist politics.

Maybe there are other reasons that staying on heightened alert for cruelties down to the last scratched elbow has become the intellectual fad of the day.