Word: cognoscenti
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...withstanding all this and the scornful claim of the cognoscenti that after all the Pops are not cultural but pander to the vulgar taste for the simple and obvious, the Vagabond will attend them, and will be seen almost any night, armed with the proper sustenance and a cigar, listening to the music and wishing that the beer were real and that he were sitting under the cool and fragrant shade of the linden trees in--But that is pure nostalgia...
...rural Rockland County, N. Y., lives Potter Henry Varnum Poor who works with the diligence of a Greek, who never duplicates, who sells every piece he produces to pottery cognoscenti at prices often mounting into three figures. In U.S. ceramics, he is at the top. Last week his work was on exhibition at both the Montross and American Designers galleries in Manhattan...
...when the Latin-American nations seem to be arousing into an audible self-consciousness for the first time, everything concerning Latin-America is of interest. For this reason vagabonds, desiring to insure that completely rounded set of interests which admits them to the ranks of the intelligentsia and cognoscenti, will attend Professor Haring's lecture in Harvard 2 at 10 o'clock upon "Argentina...
...Cognoscenti complain as cognoscenti will. All is not flawless at the Metropolitan Opera House. There are many weaknesses. Excellent ensembles, a good German wing, equal to pre-War times, a wise choice of novelties to please the epicures?these are pleasant, surely, but then there exists a tendency to quantity production, to wear out the orchestra and singers: there is no French wing to speak of, no chance for the American artist. He makes no excuses, that imperturbable impresario with his thumbs in his armpits. But he knows, and others know, that for such a polyglot community there...
...Insensibly, standards of perfection have lowered in Europe through prolonged listening to inferior musicmaking. I have heard present-day cognoscenti in Europe enthuse over performances which would not be tolerated in New York...