Word: connoisseurship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daniels certainly had a varied and outstanding collection. The exhibit testifies to his excellence of connoisseurship and offers a great deal to the students of any or all of the individual artists. The problems it faces are unfortunately intrinsic to the variety in a private collection and the delicacy of exhibiting drawings...
...addition to the intensely personal expressions of Weltschmerz and separation that are still much favored by young poets. But unlike much of the so-called academic poetry, these poems rarely intimidate with pretentiousness or with allusions to obscure mythologies. Missing, too, is the musty odor of coterie and connoisseurship...
...These are the forlorn breed of fanatics who can not only instantly identify Artie Shaw's 1940 recording of Stardust but can even name the trumpet and trombone soloists on it (Billy Butterfield and Jack Jenney), and who thrive as much on nonmusical nostalgia as on genuine musical connoisseurship...
...first-rate intellectual detective story and a fascinating photographic lecture in connoisseurship. In 1942 New York Art Dealer Piero Tozzi acquired a dirt-encrusted Renaissance statue of a boy seated on a rock. A sheepskin over one shoulder and a shell in one hand identify the youth as St. John the Baptist, and while Tozzi patiently cleaned the fragile ancient marble inch by inch, using only castile soap and a toothbrush, he began to think it might be a lost statue that Michelangelo is known to have carved in 1496. The possibility has aroused the cautious enthusiasm of a number...
...talk, reputedly the first given at the University on problems in oenology, or the connoisseurship of fine wines, will feature audience participation. Misch believes the lecture will help College men appreciate wine...