Word: cognoscenti
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Even for Italy, it was an extraordinary display of artistic temperament. The occasion had started as a concert performance of Verdi's // Corsaro in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, and the cognoscenti were all there. The opera had not been performed in 109 years and for excellent reason: troubled by rheumatism and an attack of Weltschmerz brought on by a worrisome winter in Paris, Verdi dashed // Corsaro off in less than two months and immediately pronounced it beyond salvation...
...when he arrived in Manhattan for his American debut, his boat docked in a puddle of regulations. Not a word could be said of him until the clerks had had their day. When Union Card, Cabaret Card, and Social Security Card had legalized his presence at last, and the cognoscenti heard that Martial Solal was playing the piano at the Hickory House, the coolest ones dropped everything to go and hear...
Such a response from the public cannot come wholly from the author's reputation alone. Part of the appeal of the Glass stories lies in the series' consistency. Sensing a membership in the great cognoscenti, Salinger's readers can corroberate "fact" in Seymour from any of the previous books, in the same way that fans of the James Bond mysterics can describe their hero in every detail...
Cain joined the ranks of Campus Conservatism cognoscenti only through a chain of rather indirect circumstances. Last spring at his home university he circulated a petition advocating the abolishment of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Cain sent his petition to his local congressman, whose reaction was to transmit a copy to the state police. The troopers responded by having two agents from their Bureau of Criminal Intelligence Interview the president of the University. Most of the two hours they spent with him was devoted to discussion of the 35 professors who had signed the petition...
...twinkly, oracular art critic for the old New York Sim and the magazines Dial and Art News, a Pennsylvania Quaker who started out illustrating seed catalogues and wound up as one of the U.S.'s most influential promoters of modern art, and the intimate of such Parisian cognoscenti as Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso; in The Bronx...