Word: connoisseurs
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...Oldster Royal Cortissoz of the New York Herald Tribune, the flatly conservative dean of U.S. newspaper art critics, offered Cincinnati a charming, flowing figure-piece: Jon Corbino's The Family. Connoisseur Cortissoz, erstwhile art crony of the J. P. Morgans, father & son, will tolerate no such modernistic nonsense as distorted proportions and experiments with the abstract. CJ Calm, fortyish Dorothy Adlow of the Christian Science Monitor picked a gaunt, naked vision, Ezekiel, a Biblical allegory (Ezekiel 37:3-Son of man, can these bones live?), by 29-year-old Bostonian Nathaniel Jacobson...
...collectors of art-and of quotation marks-a critic-collector-connoisseur of modern art has compiled a booklet of such pungent, provocative aphorisms: Of Art-Plato to Picasso (Wittenborn; $1.50), published last week. Compiler Albert Eugene Gallatin, a painter himself, knows well the vicissitudes of collecting. His own famed "Museum of Living Art" is one of the finest collections of 20th-century...
...merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious gourmet and longtime agnostic, he received the last rites of the Roman Catholic church; his final illness prevented his trial for collaboration with the Nazis...
...Yedder, connoisseur of sailboats, WAVES, and the other sea worthies, would like to trade items with anyone equally well acquainted with the scene at Radcliffe. He's a friendly fellow and besides it doesn't pay to got too well known in one locale, which is definitely the case here...
...West. On the head of the fabled Dr. Kung was the most modern of sun helmets, in his hand a folding fan. In these, as in everything else, he reflected China's blend of ricksha and airplane civilizations. Educated in the U.S. (A.B., Oberlin; M.A., Yale), a connoisseur of modernisms, he clings to the chopsticks of his ancestors, entertains New Year's guests with a stamping, lurching, conga-like version of a 14th-Century Ming dynasty dragon dance. His great power in China is built on modern chain stores, banks, cotton mills, and mining, a supermodern political machine...