Word: cognoscenti
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...Prague, the International Music Festival was held, the latest developments of modern European music were presented to congeries of the cognoscenti...
...Belasco came through fairly favorably. This year, the skies have darkened. David Belasco produced Tiger Cats-a dull and savage diatribe against women. He produced The Harem-a. dull and dangerous farce about seduction. Finally, he has produced Ladies of the Evening, a play frankly, almost viciously, pornographic. Cognoscenti assert that Mr. Belasco has fared unfavorably in finance of late. He has turned to the last refuge, the bed, to feather his declining nest...
...yesterday, when newspapers were unfolded at Cambridge breakfast tables, the skeleton burst from its closet with a hideous crash. The cognoscenti were competed to realize that the original of the poem was calmly claimed by a village in far away England St. Mary Cray, in Kept, which the poet carelessly visited without making his purpose clear...
...CELESTIAL OMNIBUS-E. M. Forster-Knopf ($2.00). Six strange and beautifully written stories by an author whom literary cognoscenti have for some time appraised as one of the most distinctive of modern English writers. A would-be picnic in the chestnut-woods above the Italian village of Ravello results surprisingly in a 14-year-old English boy's encounter with Pan himself- to his great delight and the utter horror of all his relatives and friends. Another youngster discovers that a certain blind alley in London is the stopping-place for a line of celestial omnibuses, conducted by such...
...American subjects in an American way. He is neither a hyperintellectual nor a blood-and-Kiplingite, nor a mere experimenter with unusual rhythms. He is a poet, and a true poet, and a great deal of his work will probably last much longer than some of our elaborately sophisticated cognoscenti believe...