Word: cognoscenti
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...Shoppe is its well-worn sofa. Apparently an ordinary piece of furniture, it has been warmed by the posteriors of the most erudite inmates of the ivy-covered squirrel-cage. This indeterminable-hued divan has sustained the weight of the wearer of the blackest, thickest-rimmed glasses among Cambridge cognoscenti. It has also supported innumerable bodies beneath as many heads holding rimless spectacles, prime among these being Cairnie himself. For sitting comfort, the Grolier ottoman is approached only by the bootblack stand at Felix's Shoe Shine Spa, and there the conversation hardly runs beyond static monosyllables in praise...
...Winterset," a great Broadway success in the past, has strong appeal for Cambridge's socially conscious cognoscenti. The play's most optimistic statement, rendered by the venerable Esdros, played by John Simon proclaims that the best man can expect from this vale of sorrow is to be able o live with courage and die with dignity. Tying up this joyous philosophy in a neat bundle, the final curtain finds the innocent lovers, Mio and Miriamne, bulletriddled and lifeless, while the judge who sentenced the guiltless man to the chair, the real murderer, and a craven coward who shielded the killer...
...Cognoscenti, up to now, have thought the St. Christopher, dated 1423, among the earliest prints. Is your art editor on vacation...
...Tuesday, unheralded, the girls returned. The Supply officers on the campus noted the arrival with pleasure. But in Cambridge, only the cognoscenti who had been in correspondence with the fair departed observed the fact. All the other students just grimaced at the Cliffedweller who sat across the aisle...
Beyond the Campus. But Phelps was moving on to greater extramural triumphs. He helped transform book reviewing from a scholarly exercise for the cognoscenti into an evangelical service for the man who reads while he runs. In 1922 he launched his "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, each month thereafter glowed with enthusiasm for the most wonderful book of the month (or year or decade...