Word: connoisseurs
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...only arts which we don't, and can't, overintellectualize. Because we transfer our reactive mechanism from the mind/eye to the eye/nose/stomach/soul, our appreciation of the art is neither diminished by an inferior education nor a weak mind. There is room for the neophyte gourmet, the connoisseur, the glutton, the macrobiotic, the fat and the lean...
Only-yesterday histories have special charm for the connoisseur who wants to collect early POLICE BRUTALITY pictures (see page 263). Or the crank who loves typographical errors-Charles Lindberg (page 23), P. G. Woodhouse (page 472), Charles Evens Hughes (page 503). The only-yesterday's narrator is a White Rabbit. Always he must hurry on. With more than 850 photographs and drawings, Phillips' documentary spews images at double-quick newsreel speed while spieling commentary at the tempo of a tobacco auctioneer...
Noel Coward pours the froth of inflection as if it were the champagne of wit. He is a connoisseur of surfaces, a sealer of the comic Everests of trivia. His plays are echo chambers of his own voice. His cool, clipped speech serves as an ironically British parody of the stiff upper...
...Connoisseur's Book of the Cigar by Zino Davidoff. 92 pages. McGraw-Hill. $5.95. What really troubles a woman about cigars is not their aroma but the look of contentment that drifts across a man's face when he lights one up. No meat loaf could ever do that, and she resents it. This informative breviary of cigarabilia-kinds, sizes, shapes, how to light up, etc.-by a Swiss cigar dealer is unlikely to lessen that resentment. Mainly for men with a sense of humidor...
...complaining connoisseur has a moot point, and even if we accept it, we are tempted to ask, So what? Whatever you call those units of writing that he lays down on paper, they speak to us. They laugh at the absurdity of our obsessions and they clarity the source of our worries. He writes about...