Word: cognoscenti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been Amherst, whom the Tigers defeated by only 6 to 3 on the Princeton home courts. The Crimson was able to pile up the same margin playing away at Amherst. On the other hand, the Princeton-Amherst match was early in the season, and neither team had, as the cognoscenti put it, "jelled...
...cognoscenti may pass this off as absurd. Why should Russia use only five-megaton bombs? And what apartment or office building will be more than 10 miles from ground zero? But the Pentagon has closer ties to the CIA than we do, and if the CIA thinks the Commies are going to attack Westchester County instead of Wall Street, that's the way it's going...
...statement "My five-year-old kid could do better than that," the most inevitable wisecrack about modern art is: "How do you know it's right side up?" Last week it turned out that the question is not as easy to answer as some of the cognoscenti like to think...
...interception of Miss Margery Michelmore's post card has put the Peace Corps in a precarious situation. Self-styled cognoscenti will undoubtedly take this opportunity to repeat a favorite charge: the Peace Corps does more harm than good. Their audience will be larger than they deserve, for the "African Rioting" headlines immediately after the incident created an impression not easily dispelled by the more accurate reports of the next...
...long-maned nudes, long-maned horses, knights in armor, and a series of self-portraits, some clothed in fancy dress and some in flabby flesh. To the artist's bitter dismay, his one-man revolution, aimed at the "horrible bestiality called modern art," failed to spark a following. Cognoscenti shunned the new technique and subject matter; De Chirico stubbornly stuck to his anachronistic style...