Word: connoisseurs
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...Guard, as opposed to Publiciety, celebrates the opening on the second Monday of the season. What saved the night socially, according to Knickerbocker, was the presence of Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, whose intervention last summer saved the Met season. Goldberg stopped backstage to congratulate Soprano Price ("I am a connoisseur of music, and I love your voice"), climbed on a sofa during intermission to read a note from President Kennedy: "The discord ended, let the harmony begin...
...Dark must be prepared to swallow some dialogue with the rugged flavor of vin ordinaire, and the end of the play tends to dribble away. But most of this Gallic murder-comedy is estate-bottled, kept at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature and poured to a farce-connoisseur's taste...
...First for the United Press and then for TIME, he has spent the intervening years covering the Senate, the White House and the House of Representatives. An amateur falconer, something of a chef (filet of sole bonne femme) and with "a somewhat exaggerated reputation as a wine connoisseur," MacNeil gets his professional kicks in watching the congressional drama in the closed committee rooms, the cloakrooms and the lobbies where, long before the voting, the real decisions are made. He first watched cover subject Larry O'Brien in action in the West Virginia primary, but did not really get interested...
Rajah Ide Anak Agung Ngurah Agung was a popular feudal lord among the jolly citizens of his Balinese principality. The people of Gianjar loved him for the zest with which he lived and loved. He enjoyed great feasts of good food and was a connoisseur of cockfights. He kept four official wives and some 40 concubines. Before dying, he ordered for himself a Karye Pitra-Yadnje Palebon first class, the most festive form of cremation ceremony practiced by the Hindus of Bali. Though President Sukarno of Indonesia (who is part Balinese himself) deplored the celebration as an extravagance...
Until she died last February at 84, sprightly Mrs. Anna Erickson occupied a special place in the art world. Her late husband was an advertising tycoon (McCann-Erickson, Inc.) who, with a connoisseur's taste, had begun a small collection of paintings that she kept adding to. In the end, the collection had only 24 works, but it was one that made the mouths of museum directors water...