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Beside him, Henry Miller is but a cheerfully smutty college sophomore, Sade a dilettant aristocrat of eccentric habits, Gide a genteel old lady sedately cultivating nightshade in her little kitchen garden.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Case of Jean Genet | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

This trait is a nuisance for her adoring, rich, hard-working publisher husband (Ronald Colman). For Caroline's heart is warm and wide and susceptible to dilettant males who are forever seeing "the essential Caroline," to flashy Latins looking for a wealthy woman who can "ride and shoot and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Conversation at Midnight brings together a priest, an artist, a writer of advertising copy, a Communist poet, a rich broker, a Liberal dilettant and a slick magazine writer for after-dinner dialog in verse. Poet Millay, who once acted at Vassar and Provincetown, asks her readers to think of her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conversation by Millay | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

The more elaborate is illustrated by that brilliant but elusive lady who flashes about the dilettant magazines in purple seas of color-reproduction under the pseudonym of "Fish." The other illustrator, also an Englishwoman, is Hope Weston, who says she has tried to dip her paintbrush in star stuff to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Omar's Garden | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

We believe that patriotism, despite all its modern caricatures at the hands of sentimentality and hypocrisy, will never be too commonplace to be honored; and that any institution of culture, unless its culture is simply dilettant, will always be eager to pay its due share of honor. Harvard owes a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/14/1894 | See Source »

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