Word: dilettantishly
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There has been much discussion lately concerning the proper place of art in society. Most critics agree that art should be for the people; it should be removed from the stale, unhealthy atmosphere which in the past has bred pseudo-intellectuals and dilettantish connoisseurs. In short, if art is to justify its own existence, it must be something more than a patrician hobby...
...France's No. 1 character actor, however, his methods are his own. Above a body like a meal sack ap pears a face as soft as putty. On the face wriggle a corrugated nose, two eyebrows which appear to have disassociated sets of muscles. No dabbler in dilettantish restraint, Actor Baur roars like a lion, whispers like a snake, employs every known trick of the method which more inhibited actors contemptuously describe as "mugging." This is a technique which he acquired before the War when, as one of the villains in the Paris Grand Guignol, he used to appear...
...students claimed, a bit resentfully, that he had an intuitive flair for chemistry, as some men have a flair for chemistry, as some men have a flair for music or verse. He worked here and there in half a dozen scattered fields, but any feeling that he was dilettantish in any is not justified by the sober worth of more than a hundred scientific papers he has written. He has been interested in chemistry since he was fourteen. At fifteen, while in the Roxbury School, he was giving shows for the neighborhood boys, billing himself as "Young Edison" and charging...
...first suggestion he offers "Is Sex Necessary?" a delightful parody on the steadily accumulating mass of literature, smacking strongly of Freud and driving the debonair dandy and the dilettantish debutante into a maze of inhibitions and high-priced psychiatrists. This clever satire, minus the usual steel edge, will, the Vagabond is convinced, be an excellent defense mechanism against the strongest pent-up fixation. It is funny...