Word: dilettantishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With her, and settling down as her next-door neighbor, has come a dilettantish, old-maidish male (Cyril Ritchard). Against her, from the moment she arrives, is the formidable Miss Mapp, a manhunting, stop-at-nothing Nosey Parker (Catherine Willard). The struggle for primacy between the two women-Lucia's efforts to dethrone Miss Mapp as a tyrant, Miss Mapp's to unmask Lucia as a fraud-produces a series of mock-heroic crescendos and climaxes...
When dimpled, dilettantish Chicago Socialite Washington Porter II found himself fresh out of cash last year, he went to Mrs. Frank Granger Logan, who also loves art (she authored the 1936 Sanity in Art brouhaha), and asked her to buy his curio-crammed museum-mansion until he could raise the money to buy it back. Mrs. Logan found $17,500 and Wash Porter took other quarters. Last week, because he was sure the Logans were planning to sell some of his fanciest items, Collector Porter resolved to reoccupy his lakeshore fastness, and taking friends and reporters along broke...
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...