Word: cognoscenti
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...political cognoscenti and academicians have been holding leadership seminars of late all over the country, and they thump their annotated treatises and bellow about "staff unity" and "purposeful agendas" and "policy initiatives," and there is nothing that emerges from these deep encounters that looks, sounds or dresses like Ronald Reagan. Maybe it's time to rewrite the book of leadership...
...Bostonians may or may not be destined for Freshman Week glory aside Paper Chase, Love Story, and other on-location classics. But it is worth seeing, and Yard cognoscenti will get a knowing chuckle from seeing Johnston Gate's ever-obnoxious gingerbread guard-booth look out of place in yet another century...
...eggheads who like to fashion movements that as a concept holds out some promise. Once someone thought up the word neoconservative, neoliberalism was not long in coming, as has been made clear in the pages of the New Republic, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic and other journals of the cognoscenti. Gurus abound in the likes of Robert Reich, I ester Thurow, and Charles Peters--and there are plenty of politicians who have been ready and willing to take up the "new ideas" cudgel: Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.). Sen Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.). Rep. Timothy Wirth (D-Colo...
...definition. Grouping as disparate politicians as North Carolina's Gov. James Hunt (a conservative in disguise). Timothy Wirth (a high-techie), and former California Gov. Jerry Brown (a flake) under the rubric of neoliberalism only confirms the impression that the label is of use solely to the self-serving cognoscenti...
Imagine one of his myriad challengers actually kayoing Joe Louis in his prime, or a 20-game loser burning the ball past the lordly New York Yankees of the Babe Ruth era. For the sailing cognoscenti along the gilt-edged waterfront of Newport, R.I., an upset of such proportions is a very real possibility. Not in anything so plebeian as boxing or baseball, to be sure, but in the patrician world of yachting, where, over the din of clinking champagne glasses, the chitchat is about fears that the longest winning streak in sports is about to end. After 132 years...