Word: connoisseurs
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...Socialite neighbors who asked to come and bring their weekend guests got the blunt advice: "Take your guests to the movies." Some of Barnes's curter notes were signed with the name Fidéle de Port Manech, his mongrel bitch. The general public crusty old Connoisseur Barnes dismissed as untutored "diversion seekers," just as objectionable when they gushed approval as when they expressed stubborn distaste...
...truth of the matter is not that our critics have sensitive palates or have been brought up in an environment that recognizes the importance of the beverage connoisseur, the heavy drinker or the excellent use to which alcohol may be put as an antiseptic; but that they write "reviews" and not theatrical "criticism." This situation is easily evidenced if an enterprising person should find the concern to read Bernard Shaw, Archer or Walkeley and compare them to their modern counterparts. The poverty of mind, soul and spirit that gaps the present generation of commentators from their predecessors should lead...
Fogg Museum opened an exhibit yesterday that shows how a connoisseur can spot a painting as an original. The six-week display, "Connoisseurship Step by Step," features works by Durer, Degas, Toulouse-Lautree, Rembrandt, and Goya...
Last week, as Grover Magnin, the last of the Magnin family, stepped out at the mandatory retirement age of 65, a new man stepped in to shine things up. Into the $45,000-plus presidency of the 74-year-old company went swarthy, handsome Hector Escobosa, art connoisseur, amateur painter, and, at 43, one of the top U.S. retailers...
...fashionable psychological approach. His young men have the assertiveness of youth itself, their vanity is perfect. His masterful or stupid middle-aged women are a special excellence, and so are his pompous fathers. Undershaft is convincing as a human being. A very vain man, Shaw was a connoisseur of vanities and his collection is not wounding or disheartening-as it is, say, in smaller writers like Maugham-largely because Shaw is warmed by the fire of a natural affinity. Only a clumsiness of plot-Shaw was not a natural plot-maker, but a reckless piler on of the grotesque...