Word: cognoscenti
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...fact that people are still going to concerts in which his music figures prominently. Chopin seems to be one of the few composers whose works can satisfactorily make up an entire piano program. Naturally I am aware of the criticism of some of the criticism of some of the cognoscenti who find Chopin not stimulating enough intellectually, too sweetly sensual for their tastes, too obvious in his emotionalism. Chopin is not obvious at all; he is filled with subtleties-more for the ear than for the mind. Besides, there is the dark as well as the amiable side...
...portrait of Pope Innocent X. The artist was out of practice; he had done no heads for some years. So, to get his hand in, Velásquez decided to make a portrait of his color grinder and studio hand, a husky mulatto slave named Juan de Pareja. Roman cognoscenti greeted it, according to one of Velásquez's contemporaries, "with admiration and astonishment," and from then on this aloof, brooding presence on canvas with the liquid black eyes remained one of the most admired, if least seen, of all Velásquez's portraits...
Self-Destructive War. After a number of uncomfortable brushes with New York City's alienated cognoscenti, Tyrmand concludes that the American intellectual yearns for power; but "all that is offered to him is influence; and that seems to him an offensive concession. Hence, he wages a self-destructive war. Hatred becomes his substitute for power." The Eastern European intellectual, on the other hand, "doesn't miss power. He knows too well what a leaden burden is perennially attached to it. All he dreams about is influence. He knows that in enlarging margins of freedom and human dignity, influence...
...unofficial mayor of Rome's Via Veneto is Lionel Stander, a growling, grimacing, profane old lion with the plumage of a peacock and the unabashed appetites of a goat. As he fanfaronades along, groups of young Roman cognoscenti crowd round him and cry "Ciao, Lionello!" As he gleefully claims, "Some of the best-looking broads in Rome call me and ask 'Can I come sleep with you, baby...
...long been recognized as one of the greatest graphic artists Germany ever produced; yet his reputation in New York and Paris has been largely underground, as if knowing collectors and cognoscenti loathed sharing his limited output. In any case, Wunderlich's fame has now risen above ground and is spreading fast. Aquarius Press in New York has just published a suite of his lithographs based on Solomon's Song of Songs. Next week his first U.S. exhibition of paintings opens at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery. In June he will be accorded a retrospective in the Print Biennale...