Word: connoisseurs
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According to Cuno, Welch "combined a connoisseur's eye with a scholar's inclination" and laid the foundation for what was only recently a brand new discipline...
...splash of white wine follows a slow and deliberate stir. Within minutes, dinner is served. A manly man does not pay too much attention to what he eats. "He is not an aesthete." A self-described wine connoisseur, Mansfield views the manly man as uncultured and unintellectual: "He must be unrefined." Asked if a scholar can in any way be manly, he said, "[only] if he gets women to do everything...
Gurdal developed his passion for cheese under a French wine-and-cheese connoisseur in California...
DIED. ALFREDO KRAUS, 71, lyric tenor known for his masterly bel canto roles; of pancreatic cancer; in Madrid. Kraus limited his repertoire, a policy that preserved his voice into his 60s. The selectivity cost him popularity but made him a connoisseur's delight. He sang with Maria Callas on the legendary live recordings of La Traviata in Lisbon...
...China and Russia continue to act up, voters might find it reassuring to have a connoisseur in the White House. And in the meantime, Gore won't be able to kick his foreign policy habit. Over the howls of his political team, he insisted on flying two years ago to Kyoto, Japan, to rescue a 155-nation global-warming treaty, something the Republican Senate is never likely to ratify. Last summer, when advisers would have preferred that his time be spent claiming credit for this country's economy, Gore was in Ukraine, urging President Leonid Kuchma to take the bitter...