Word: connoisseurs
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...scholastic tendency has hit trivia. Edwin Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky alphabetized all the major trivialities and arranged them so that you can't see the answer without having the person in the next stall at Lamont know you're cheating. A special twenty-question section for the connoisseur, even asks you to name Milton Berle's mother. (No, not Mrs. Berle.) A reading period necessity published by Dell for only fifty cents...
...reckoning of the late Lucius Beebe, who finished this gossipy and amusing book shortly before he died in February at 63, Brady was a gross arriviste, strictly a spender without class. Himself a relentless connoisseur, a professional dandy, and perhaps the best known boulevardier of his time, Social Chronicler Beebe held that the true test of spenders of distinction was not necessarily how they rid themselves of substantial sums of money but rather how closely they subscribed to the dictum of the late Gene Fowler: "Money is something to be thrown off the back end of trains." As an example...
...most important acquisition since El Greco's Assumption of the Virgin in 1906. Actually, any pricing of Correggio is arbitrary; in his 40 years, he painted only 40 well authenticated works, and until Chicago's purchase only five were owned by U.S. museums.* And, although Connoisseur Berenson judged Correggio "too sensuous, and therefore limited," the artist has remained astonishingly popular through the centuries...
...problems as a Negro have been somewhat ameliorated. I would like to feel that I was appointed not because I was a Negro, but maybe in spite of that fact." One of Weaver's most welcome qualifications is that he himself is a lover of cities and a connoisseur of urban living. "The American city is like a beguiling woman," he says with gusto. "Each woman has her own attributes, and each man, thank God, can make a choice." Weaver raves about such cities as New York ("You can get the best cheap meal and the lousiest expensive meal...
...Still, he rarely gets a chance to stay in one place for long. He has never stopped living well, and indeed, next to his music, he loves traveling best. "If I were not a pianist," he says, "I would be a travel agent." He could also be a professional connoisseur. He owns a fine collection of paintings and 2,000 rare books ("I could cry over a book with a fine binding"). His ties come from Turnbull's in London, his handmade shirts from Barclay's in Paris, his suits from Caraceni in Rome, his hats from...