Word: connoisseurs
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...occasionally) to give up, then qualifying and qualifying that advice until the qualification itself, the delicate attempts to fine-tune one's own emotions, become the real subject of the music: he starts by telling himself to wake up and smell the coffee, and ends by becoming a coffee connoisseur. (One Orange Juice song is even called "Breakfast Time." Self-mocking...
...Young says Tizzie is an even more discriminating connoisseur than the average Harvard student. Tizzy refuses to eat food from the Harvard Union dining hall and prefers certain "gourmet" treats...
...Freak," released in 1978, encompasses everything that the disco connoisseur desires in a song. Right after a groovin' scream in the intro, the base settles into a panacea of flashing lights and disco balls. Even the squarest lounge lizard can't help but do the freak...
...Hydes Again! and "Not the Count of Monte Cristo?!"), this musical farce is designed for threadbare theater groups with a taste for tastelessness. "Welcome to the opera!" the opening number announces. "Where gals with lung disease/ Can hit high Cs with ease!/ Their doom is sure to please/ The connoisseur...
...simply breathe. For silence is responsiveness, and in silence we can listen to something behind the clamor of the world. "A man who loves God, necessarily loves silence," wrote Thomas Merton, who was, as a Trappist, a connoisseur, a caretaker of silences. It is no coincidence that places of worship are places of silence: if idleness is the devil's playground, silence may be the angels'. It is no surprise that silence is an anagram of license. And it is only right that Quakers all but worship silence, for it is the place where everyone finds his God, however...