Word: poser
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...with candor and benefit. Mr. Van Wyck Brooks' defence of the type of mind indicated by a fair understanding of the word "aesthetic" becomes not so specialized a view as he forecasts. He is as abhorrent of "new culture" as he is severe towards the "coarse mind"; and the "poser" wherever found, whether he reads Pierre Loti to maintain refinement or abstains from drinking milk because he thinks it unmanly, is called, if he be a pretender, "diabolically insincere". In short Mr. Brooks depicts a very decent sort of fellow, who writes, and he asks: "Why shouldn't he write...
What is the result of this twin policy of commercial and political isolation? We are without a friend among the powers and are regarded as an international poser...
...answers to all of which he carefully wrote down in a large book. After him there was n't much left for the next man to say; he managed, however, to find one new question, and that was, what did I mean to study. This last was rather a poser. I had hitherto confined my attention entirely to getting in, and had given no thought to the question of what I should do when I had succeeded. It was no time for hesitating, however, so I answered the first thing that came into my head, which happened to be philology...