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Total Immersion might suit beginners or dilettantes, but it lacked oomph.

It was a free, or free-ish, ecosystem for indie developers and digital dilettantes.

But for these lazy, vacation-addicted dilettantes to surrender to themselves is beyond revolting.

Compared to shrewd bureaucratic warriors like Mattis and McMaster, Trump and Bannon are rank dilettantes.

Until then we enjoy rises and dips and volatility that puts most bitcoin dilettantes off their lunch.

The reckless image is created by newbies, dilettantes who flock to the sub to get rich quick.

Obsessives and dilettantes, omnivores and geeks, highbrow and low, we are more likely to seek affirmation than challenge.

UKIP's sole Scottish MEP has said that he is entering the contest to stop the "entryists, dilettantes and single-issue loonies".

I'll hire a person who works their tail off every time over dilettantes who rely on IQ or a fancy resume.

A visit to "Moose Murders" is what will separate the connoisseurs of Broadway disaster from mere dilettantes for many moons to come.

Fighting is not for dilettantes and while it can be fun, it cannot be safe if it does not create a culture of safety.

The review makes the featured chefs sound like rich dilettantes, but in truth we came from varied backgrounds with different experiences dining in restaurants.

An insurgent in a sea of dilettantes, GAIKA stands ready to stand for what's right against those who don't, no matter what size the stage.

There are some bona fide supernovas (I admire especially Lisa Randall and Frank Wilczek), but Edge has also featured robber barons, dilettantes, and has-beens.

The Rose family is no longer the collection of selfish dilettantes who first crashed Schitt's Creek, and both they and the show are better for it.

A 2004 article in the Wall Street Journal compares Toughman to Karoke, a sloppy method for letting dilettantes pretend to be the stars they so revere.

But students who want to commune with Kant and Keats shouldn't be made to feel that they're indulgent dilettantes throwing away all hope of a lucrative livelihood.

Dilettantes dabble with mass media, geniuses deliver gesamtkunstwerk—a fancy German word for a synthesis of the arts, or total art, which engages all the senses at once.

It is an industry full of idealist workers scrambling to cobble together a living at publications owned by a shifting group of cutthroat capitalists and incompetent rich dilettantes.

Like so many sporting dilettantes, the extent of my exposure comes from watching the odd Olympic competition on TV. Thanks to Motherboard, I was confronted with a steep learning curve.

Sometimes members of our underground magazine club would complain about the speed of circulation, and I would have to remind the dilettantes to read faster or get off the pot.

And many experts point to Trump's decision to appoint uninformed dilettantes like Kushner and Greenblatt to the high-level negotiating roles as one of the core failings of the administration's efforts.

Colloquially known as "penis fish" among biologists and dilettantes for its phallic shape, the innkeeper worm earned their proper name for temporarily housing smaller creatures in their burrows, with little conflict.

Trump's election threw wide the Overton window; political rhetoric and behavior that was previously unthinkable is now electorally viable, as we see with the ascendance of regressive, fame-seeking dilettantes like Clay Higgins.

He may reside in a dingy attic up six flights of stairs, but in her imagination he leads a more exalted existence, known to dilettantes and artists alike as the life of the mind.

The vague politics, the lack of a manifesto, the rich dilettantes, the model-beautiful, multi-racial/ethnic group: it seems like Bonello is parodying millennial political engagement as all anger, violence and slogans, no substance.

Recently, in a blistering roast by Sarah Ellison in Vanity Fair, Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, were cast as ineffectual dilettantes and Beltway laughingstocks, treating the nation like a vanity project, an ad campaign, a toy.

If you walk inside and head to the left, past the check-in desk, you might find a couple of birthday parties, weekend dilettantes rolling with bumper guards up, and high schoolers immortalizing gutter balls on their Instagram stories.

Many so-called Lakers supporters have earned a reputation for being bandwagon-riding dilettantes who like to make a show of shoving their purple and gold in other people's faces more than they enjoy actually, you know, following the team.

They should be the dominant upshot of any significant increment of news coverage and analysis—the thing that reaches and sticks with casual news consumers, in the same way that even musical dilettantes can hum the leitmotif of Beethoven's fifth symphony.

The first season didn't have an especially complicated plot: A ragtag crew of actresses, athletes and dilettantes in 1980s Los Angeles coalesces into a passable all-women's professional wrestling league, just in time for their colorful personas to face off in the ring.

Les Années Folles belonged to the upper class and the dilettantes and creative types who could afford to while away the hours at the boozy boîte known as the Jockey, where expats and Parisians came to drink and listen to American jazz and blues.

Whether something is truly, sufficiently punk is one of the great pop-ideological struggles of our time, an argument that alienates curious dilettantes and reduces the faithful into rampart-building maniacs defending a half-century-old aesthetic against interlopers who don't really exist anymore.

For hiking dilettantes like us, the Swiftcurrent Trail was the most difficult hike we had ever undertaken — 17 miles, with 3,650 feet of elevation gain, to get to our destination, a fire lookout at the end of what turned out to be the park's highest maintained trail.

I tried to determine Tate Modern's reasoning for the discrepancy between the two entry prices: Picasso is known by dilettantes and art aficionados alike, and is perhaps so beloved by both crowds that the higher ticket price — and therefore increased revenues for the museum — would be paid without qualms.

" After a prelude about Albert Hofmann's synthesis of LSD in Switzerland in 1943, Boyle's account covers the years 1962-64, a period in which Leary and retinue — grad students, minor celebrities, independently wealthy dilettantes and a monkey — retreat from authority in order to establish a community around LSD, or "the sacrament.

" But of course the recreated Catholic liturgy and revived Catholic aesthetic would never be the real thing; the actors might know their roles, and the incense might waft thick, but attendees could "only ever be curious dilettantes; try as they might, the soul of times past does not dwell within them.

On Monday, Congress heard from Ms. Hill, the former top national security adviser on Russia and Europe, who detailed how Mr. Trump had done an end run around his own national security team, putting Ukraine policy in the hands of unqualified dilettantes like Gordon Sondland, whose $1 million donation to the Trump inaugural basically bought him the title of ambassador to the European Union, and Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer and favorite henchman.

He traveled in a pack of local celebrities, artists and dilettantes who defined downtown chic for the better part of a decade: Chloë Sevigny and Natasha Lyonne, Ryan McGinley, Dan Colen and Dash Snow; designers and night-life fixtures, skateboarders-turned-actors and actors-turned-jewelers and a pair of identical twin models, Marc and Ian Hundley, with whom Mr. Cho invented an imaginary rock band, Tawny, for the purposes of dressing up wildly and purely for the hell of it.

148, 195, 212, 220, 304, 342-3. See also Boia, Capcanele istoriei, p.326 According to Tismăneanu, Roller had become a "scribe" of Romanian communism,Tismăneanu, p.148 one of several "fanatics" and "dilettantes" pushed up through PCdR promotions.

1980 Eisengrau began publishing small editions of tapes with the musical works of underground bands, classifying thereby Eisengrau to a medium for music. Bettina Köster belonged to a group of Berlin artists named genius dilettantes, who, starting in 1980, performed in quick changing band-formations such as Liebesgier, Nachdenkliche Wehrpflichtige and Einstürzende Neubauten among others. Wolfgang Müller from Die Tödliche Doris invented the characterizing term of the "genius dilettantes" in his book about the Berlin scene published at the Merve-Verlag. The British radiohost John Peel referred to Köster, Gut and Beate Bartel who meanwhile had separated, during a show on 25.

85 In his better known lampoons, Junimea founder Titu Maiorescu attacked the "Red" academics and novelists as dilettantes. According to Maiorescu, these figures had polluted the literary language (an "inebriation with words") and had excited the reading public with the most questionable information.

Die Opernprobe (The opera rehearsal), also titled Die vornehmen Dilettanten (The distinguished dilettantes), is a comic opera (Spieloper) in one act by Albert Lortzing, to a libretto which he adapted from a play by Johann Friedrich Jünger. The premiere was on 20 January 1851 at the Oper Frankfurt.

The Black Sun Press is not given much attention in literary history because of the relatively short time period during which they published, and because they were seen as "frivolous interlopers" in the serious world of literature, what antiquarian books expert and actor Neil Pearson and others have called dilettantes.

Mania D was a new wave-underground band at the end of the seventies to beginning of the eighties in West Berlin. They had been part of the Geniale Dilettanten (Ingenious Dilettantes) movement. Members were the predecessors of the all-girls band Malaria!, of Liaisons Dangereuses, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Krupps.

Winter and Power are both schoolteachers who also perform country music with The Dilettantes, and Andrews is Power's husband."KEN Mode are pros at rackets and tax brackets". Toronto Star, By Nick Patch, Feb. 21, 2016 Power is also the sister of musician and broadcaster Tom Power."Inside CBC Radio’s new ‘q’ with Tom Power".

The Dilettantes are an American alternative rock band based in San Francisco Bay Area. They consist of Brian Jonestown Massacre member Joel Gion (vocals, tambourines, and maracas), Jefferson Parker (guitar, vocals), Brock Galland (guitar, vocals), KC Kozak (drums), and Nick Marcantonio (bass guitar). To date they have released one studio album, 2007's 101 Tambourines, which received mixed reviews.

Philip Hastane is a fictional author created by Clark Ashton Smith, in many ways an analog of his creator. He too lived in a cabin in Auburn, California, and wrote poetry and weird fiction. He also associated with a large number of artists and dilettantes whom he met through letters and conferences. He is part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

"Givin' Up And Gettin Fat" is the third single from the album Dilettantes by Australian rock band You Am I, their eighth studio album. The accompanying music video acts as a prequel to the band's Beau Geste video, featuring the band in 1920s Marseilles. It was released as a download only single on iTunes on 17 January 2009.

The film shows Bismarck being dismissed by Wilhelm II of Germany and the dilettantes who surround him. An unscrupulous schemer plays on the king's desire to lead and so persuades him to the dismissal. This results in a disastrous two-front war by destroying Bismarck's treaty with Russia and leaving him to lament with the question of who would complete his work.

At the age of 23 Suij had already begun to work as a painter. Four years later she was admitted to the ladies class of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. There she studied from 1882 until 1884.After the foundation of art academies in the 19th century artists who had not undergone training at such educational institutions were called dilettantes.

" In 1996, singer-songwriter Tommy Keene commented that any association to the term since the 1980s is to be "compared to a lot of bands that didn't sell records, it's like a disease. If you're labeled that, you're history." Musician Steve Albini said: "I cannot bring myself to use the term 'power pop.' Catchy, mock-descriptive terms are for dilettantes and journalists.

In the 1950s, American inventors created the Etherscope, a "difference engine" that could interact with Etherspace. Etherscopes are hand-crafted by technicians and are therefore prohibitively expensive items that are owned by the rich and powerful. Users vary from upper-class dilettantes to massive government bureaucracies and wealthy corporations. Enginaughts were originally the trained technicians that created, maintained, programmed, and used "difference engines" (mechanical computers).

The gallery opened in September 1973, in the center of Chicago's art scene near the new Museum of Contemporary Art, and was joined by a second women's collective, ARC Gallery; together they sought to challenge the notion that women artists were dilettantes by offering a professional venue equal to the city's commercial galleries.Brotman, Barbara. "Pioneering gallery to end 30-year run," Chicago Tribune, May 28, 2003. Retrieved October 15, 2018.

Jeannette, sometimes "Nanette", Papin, née Chodowiecka (1761–1835) was a German painter. Jeannette Chodowiecka was a daughter of Daniel Chodowiecki, Papin was born in Berlin, moving to Frankfurt an der Oder after her marriage to a member of the clergy. She sent pastels from there to the Academy of Arts in her hometown beginning in 1788. Exhibited under the section for dilettantes, they included genre works and copies after other artists.

In February 2013 Glass performed the world premiere of his Complete Piano Etudes at the Perth Concert Hall. Whitwell joined Glass and Japanese pianist, Maki Namekawa, on stage to present the 20 etudes. Whitwell played seven of the etudes and according to Elizabeth Howard at theMusic.com.au "[she] surprised classical dilettantes with her serene style and humble manner. Her interpretation exhibited a softness that suggested an introspective exploration of Glass’s compositions" .

Rogers and Hopkinson during a You Am I concert at the ANU Bar in November 2008 The band's 8th studio album, Dilettantes, was released on 13 September 2008, alongside the radio-only single Erasmus. The album debuted at number one on the ARIA Australian Music charts, and number twelve on the overall chart. In August 2010, it was announced that they had left EMI to sign with new Sydney label Other Tongues.

2 Although the system of sale of commissions officially governed the selection and promotion of officers, in practice the system was considerably relaxed during wartime, with far more stringent requirements placed on promotion. Many British officers were professional soldiers rather than wealthy dilettantes and showed themselves ready to discard their drill manuals and use innovative methods and tactics.O'Shaughnessy (2013), pp.6-7 Officers in British service could purchase commissions to ascend the ranks,Duffy, 2005 [1987] , p.

Rogers has used various guitars in addition to the Crockenbackers, predominantly Fender Telecasters, including a '52 Reissue, a 70s Telecaster Deluxe and a '72 Thinline Reissue. The latter was given to Lane shortly after Lane joined the band. During the recording of Dilettantes, Rogers also began using Fender Jazzmasters, using them on all subsequent tours to date, in addition to the Crockenbackers. For acoustics, Rogers predominantly used a Guild JF30 and a custom-built Piers Crocker acoustic.

Transactions continued steadily through the turn of the century and into the 1820s. In the late 1820s and early 1830s, a movement to reform the Royal Society rose. The reformers felt that the scientific character of the Society had been undermined by the admission of too many gentleman dilettantes under Banks. In proposing a more limited membership, to protect the Society's reputation, they also argued for systematic, expert evaluation of papers for Transactions by named referees.

There were mixed the most talented actors with dilettantes ones. (...) Lajos Kőmives Nagy directed large performances, being the man was great intentions. Maybe it was a theater pumped with pathos and passion, but it succeeded to make the first steps towards the abolition of artificiality, namely it launched to put an end of the pathetic, out of date and declamativ theater. (...) Thus, being in dire agony, the theatre of Cluj was looking ahead to its future.

This ratio did not change until the 1930s.Fulton, p 140 White's encouragement of women was in complete contrast to Stieglitz, whose "paternalistic and sexist attitudes"Peterson, p 104 kept him from seriously considering many outstanding women photographers of his time. After White's death, Stieglitz summed up his attitudes in a letter to Kuehn, saying "His [White's] pupils ‒ women ‒ half-baked dilettantes ‒ not a single real talent…."Naef, p 482 After several years, former students made up a majority of the White School instructors.

Because of his liberal attitude and his behaviour during the 1848 revolution he had to say goodbye and moved to Bonn in 1849. There, he founded the Rheinische Musikzeitung (1850-59, later Niederrheinische Musikzeitung), which was published in Cologne and whose declared aim was to defend the traditions of classical art against the unreasonable demands of contemporaries. In 1850 he founded the music society "Beethoven Verein" together with others. Only a short time later, this association, consisting of professional musicians and dilettantes, gave subscription concerts.

In 1940, Williams joined as a member of the Dilettantes (later known as Canadian Negro Women's Association), a social club of Black women in Toronto. Along with Kay Livingstone and Phyllis Simmons Brooks, Williams was instrumental in reshaping the group to form the Canadian Women's Negro Club (later Association), CANEWA, which focused on addressing social problems and establishing scholarships and bursaries in support of Black youth. She also worked closely with Penny Hodge. She served as secretary for a number of years and as president on two occasions, 1953-1954 and 1973-1974.

The 2014 Hong Kong protests led to the birth of new political parties. The pan-democrats encourage young people who participated in the Occupy movement to register and vote in the district council poll. The first wave of dilettantes, about 50 in number, many of whom were millennials having political aspirations and disillusioned with the political establishment, and who were influenced by the Umbrella Revolution, contested the 2015 district council elections. Pitted against seasoned politicians, and with support only from friends and family, they became popularly known as "Umbrella Soldiers".

Alströmer was a popular dilettante singer at private concerts and public charity concerts. In 1799, Alströmer participated in a concert in Stockholm playing the Clavichord to the singing of Christoffer Christian Karsten, Marianne Ehrenström and Christina Fredenheim. In 1795, she was inducted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, a first for her combined sex and status. Previously, only women professional artists had been elected, but in 1795, Alströmer was elected with Christina Fredenheim and Anna Brita Wendelius, followed in 1801 by Sophia and Emilie Brandel, Ulrica Bouck and Marie Antoinette Petersén, all dilettantes.

"Beau Geste" is the second single from the album Dilettantes by Australian rock band You Am I, their eighth studio album. The track is loosely based on the Beau Geste story, with snippets of French dialog appearing during the instrumental section. It was released as a download only single on iTunes on 8 November 2008 in three formats - one with just the single, one with a b-side and one with the music video, which is in part a homage to the various film versions of Beau Geste.

Theodorescu, continued to appear in the membership lists. After the 1918 union of Transylvania, the Banat, Bukovina and Bessarabia with Romania, there was a massive influx of new members. Moldovanu, who was president from 1921 to 1923, in fact declared that he wanted all Romanian writers to join. At the beginning of his second term, there were 223 active members; another 40 entered during the subsequent presidencies of Sadoveanu (1923-1924) and Goga (1925). Liviu Rebreanu subsequently became president, remaining until February 1932; during his term, there was an attempt to address the problem posed by the numerous dilettantes who had become members.

Brome's play was one element in the so-called "Second War of the Theatres,"The original War of the Theatres, in 1599-1601, also involved Jonson against other playwrights, John Marston and Thomas Dekker. a literary conflict between professional playwrights, most notably Ben Jonson, and courtly amateurs and dilettantes like Suckling. Suckling had ridiculed Jonson in his 1638 comedy The Goblins, though Jonson had died the previous year. Brome was a longstanding admirer of Jonson and a member of the so-called Sons of Ben; he was also the most politically assertive and sceptical of the professionals of his generation.

Cover of the exhibition program: Degenerate Art exhibition, 1937. The word "Kunst", meaning art, is in scare quotes; the artwork is Otto Freundlich's sculpture Der Neue Mensch The Degenerate Art Exhibition () was an art exhibition organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich from 19 July to 30 November 1937. The exhibition presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition. The day before the exhibition started, Hitler delivered a speech declaring "merciless war" on cultural disintegration, attacking "chatterboxes, dilettantes and art swindlers".

Rogers has frequently appeared as a television guest on programs such as RocKwiz, Rove Live, Talkin' 'bout Your Generation and The Fat. He appeared as himself in the second season of The Micallef Program and in the "Be a Rock Star" episode of Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure, and also appeared in several episodes of the ABC television series MDA as a rock musician. Rogers' interview on Andrew Denton's Enough Rope coincided with the September 2008 launch of You Am I's eighth studio album Dilettantes. In 2013, Rogers hosted the music performance/interview show Studio at the Memo during July and August.

When the couple moved to Toronto, she hosted radio shows for several stations, including a CBC affiliate. In 1951, she joined a Toronto social club then known as The Dilettantes; it was soon renamed to the Canadian Negro Women’s Club, later the Canadian Negro Women’s Association (CANEWA), and Livingstone became its first president, serving from 1951 to 1953. The association began providing scholarships to encourage Black students to stay in school. CANEWA later organized the Calypso Carnival, which later became known as Caribana. She also performed in amateur and professional theatrical productions and was referred to as "one of Canada’s leading Black actresses" during this period.

Guha: According to Bryant, OIT proponents tend to be linguistic dilettantes who either ignore the linguistic evidence completely, dismiss it as highly speculative and inconclusive, or attempt to tackle it with hopelessly inadequate qualifications; this attitude and neglect significantly minimises the value of most OIT publications. Fosse notes crucial theoretical and methodological shortcomings in the indigenist literature. Analysing the works of Sethna, Bhagwan Singh, Navaratna and Talageri, he notes that they mostly quote English literature, which is not fully explored, and omitting German and French Indology. It makes their works in various degrees underinformed, resulting in a critique that is "largely neglected by Western scholars because it is regarded as incompetent".

George III (reigned 1760–1820), and the aristocracy in general, continued to be patrons of music through the foundation of organisations like the Royal Concert of Music in 1776 and events like the Handel Festival from 1784. Outside of court patronage there were also a number of major figures, including the Scottish composer Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1732–81) well known in his era, but whose work was quickly forgotten after his death and has only just begun to be reappraised.A. S. Garlington, Society, Culture and Opera in Florence, 1814–1830: Dilettantes in an "Earthly Paradise" (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), , pp. 19–20.

Dilettantes is the eighth studio album by the Australian rock band You Am I, released on 13 September 2008.Music Games DVDs at JB HIFI Australia It was recorded at Electric Avenue Studios in Sydney and Sing Sing South in Melbourne before being mixed at Studio 301 in Sydney. The first single, "Erasmus", was premiered on Triple J radio on Dools & Linda's show on 6 August, and was released on iTunes along with the album's title track as a downloadable single on 6 September. Video clips were released in November for "Beau Geste" and "Givin' Up And Gettin Fat" to be released as radio/iTunes singles.

According to The Independent, he brought professionalism to orchestras by shaking them free of dead wood, clearing out talented dilettantes and pushing the survivors to perform at their best through relentless rehearsal."The affairs of a Casanova conductor", 15 July 2001 After giving a Daily Telegraph interview in 1936 in which he said that an orchestral musician did not deserve a "job for life" and should "give of his lifeblood with every bar he plays," Sargent lost much favour with musicians. They were particularly annoyed because of their support of him during his long illness, and thereafter he faced frequent hostility from British orchestras.

Carlo Munier (1858–1911) was an Italian musician who advocated for the mandolin's acknowledgement among as an instrument of classical music and focused on "raising and ennobling the mandolin and plectrum instruments". He wanted "great masters" to consider the instrument and raise it above the level of "dilettantes and street players" where it had been stuck for centuries. He expected that the mandolin and guitar would be taught in serious orchestral music schools and incorporated into the orchestra. A composer of more than 350 works for the mandolin, he led the mandolin orchestra Reale circolo mandolinisti Regina Margherita named for its patron Margherita of Savoy and gave the queen instruction on the mandolin.

In light of the two acts cited, the tendency to compare, or worse, to confuse or replace the true "Genoese" Columbus family with other similarly named Ligurian, Lombard or foreign families collapses, as does the main argument of the dilettantes who oppose the Genoese documentation and try to maintain that there was indeed a Genoese Christopher Columbus, woolen-weaver, but who was not the discoverer of America. In addition to the two documents cited, there are others that confirm the identification of the Genoese Christopher Columbus, son of Domenico, with the admiral of Spain. An act dated 11 October 1496 says:Bedini, Silvio A. The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia (Volume I). Simon & Schuster, 1992. p. 163. Retrieved 2011-02-07.

Harry received a National Diploma in design while at the Liverpool Art College and became the first student in the new Graphic Design course, eventually winning a Senior City Art Scholarship. Harry maintained that students at art college should be bohemian in their thoughts and actions and not like the "dilettantes and dabblers", whom Harry disapproved of for wearing duffle coats and turtle neck sweaters. One of the college's artists and teachers, Arthur Ballard, later stated that Harry and Sutcliffe both overshadowed Lennon at college, explaining that they were both "extremely well educated, and very eager for information". Harry organised a students' film society, where he showed Orphee, by Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dalí, and Luis Buñuel's, L'Age d'Or.

A veteran of the British Indian Army, Nolan is unusual in the hierarchy of his day both for having combat experience and for having acquired his commission through merited promotion as opposed to purchase. As such he regards many of his colleagues, who are mostly aristocratic dilettantes casual about squandering their subordinates' lives, with contempt. Nolan's superior is the gruff Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard), who treats the regiment under his command as his personal property and who dislikes Nolan as an "Indian" officer with a native Indian servant. Cardigan's men are typical of the common soldiers of their day; though reasonably well- equipped – compared with the Russians – they are also poorly trained and supplied.

Camera, A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital, 2009, pgs. 2, 3, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, Sterling Signature, an Imprint of Sterling Publish, Todd Gustavson et. al., (Curator of Technology, George Eastman House), Original plate (left) & colorized reoriented enhancement (right). The date of Niépce's first photographic experiments is uncertain. He was led to them by his interest in the new art of lithography,"Around the World in 1896 : A Brief History of Photography." The Library of Congress. 2002. 18 September 2008. for which he realized he lacked the necessary skill and artistic ability, and by his acquaintance with the camera obscura, a drawing aid which was popular among affluent dilettantes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot follows the generally harmless misadventures of a lovable, gauche Frenchman, Monsieur Hulot (played by Tati himself), as he joins the "newly emerging holiday-taking classes" for a summer vacation at a modest seaside resort. The film affectionately lampoons several hidebound elements of French political and economic classes, from chubby capitalists and self- important Marxist intellectuals to petty proprietors and drab dilettantes, most of whom find it nearly impossible to free themselves, even temporarily, from their rigid social roles in order to relax and enjoy life. The film also gently mocks the confidence of postwar western society in the optimistic belief in capitalist production, and the value of complex technology over simple pleasures, themes that would resurface in his later films.

She was born in Stade, the daughter of Count Kurt Christoph von Königsmarck (1634–1673) and Countess Maria Christina von Wrangel, sister of Philip Christoph Königsmarck, Aurora Königsmarck and Carl Johan Königsmarck, and a paternal niece of Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck. She married count Carl Gustaf Lewenhaupt (1662–1703) in the presence of the royal family on 5 January 1689, and became the mother of Charles Emil Lewenhaupt. Ulrika Eleonora the Elder attributed to Amalia von Königsmarck Amalia Königsmarck belonged to the royal court-dilettantes among the students of Ehrenstrahl. Her known paintings include a self-portrait from 1688, a portrait of her sister Aurora, a portrait of the noble Katarina Ebba Horn from 1698 and a portrait of Sophia Dorothea of Hanover.

Late in 2008 Lane's groups each released an album: both You Am I's Dilettantes (September) and The Pictures' Kicking Indifference (November). On 6 September 2013, Lane issued his debut solo extended play, The Good Borne of Bad Tymes, which was supported by a national tour in September and October. The Heralds Jade Lazarevic described its "five tracks are a departure from Lane’s retro rock roots, with synths influenced by '70s groups such as the Gary Numan-fronted Tubeway Army and German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk working their way into the sound and even a 'space rock jam' track". Joined The Stems in November 2017 and toured Europe April/May 2018 for the 30th anniversary of The Stems debt album "At First Sight Violets Are Blue".

An attempt to redeem Collier's reputation from the charge of forgery was made by Dewey Ganzel in his 1982 study Fortune and Men's Eyes.D. Ganzel, Fortune and Men's Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier (Oxford University Press, New York 1982). He argued that Collier's accusers, led by Frederic Madden, were motivated largely by envy and class bias, and that they were upper-class dilettantes determined to put down a lower-class but ferociously hard-working and talented striver. Some of the accusations against Collier, such as the claim by American psychiatrist Samuel A. Tannenbaum that Collier had forged all the accounts of the Master of the Revels, do not stand up to critical examination.F. E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564-1964 (Penguin, Baltimore 1964), p. 109.

The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length, printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt, who owned a small print shop in the Strand, and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet, dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783.Ackroyd (1995: 94) Each individual copy was hand-stitched, with a grey back and a blue cover, reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the twenty-two extant copies, eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting.Erdman (1982: 846) Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791, which was to be published by Joseph Johnson.

In 1809, Leroy purchased a Captain's commission in the fictional South Essex Regiment, where he first meets Richard Sharpe in the novel Sharpe's Eagle. During Sharpe's first mission with the South Essex, its officers quickly place themselves into one of two categories: inept, cowardly dilettantes, such as the regiment's Colonel, Sir Henry Simmerson and his nephew, Lt. Christian Gibbons and professional, or at least competent officers, such as Leroy, Major Forrest and the regiment's only veteran officer, Lennox (a captain in the novel, but a major in the television adaptation). Leroy remains with the South Essex throughout his military career, rising steadily in ranks through the Peninsular Campaign. He is present at the loss of the regiment's colours at the fictional engagement at Torrecastro and at the subsequent capture of a French Imperial Eagle at the Battle of Talavera in 1809.

Maciunas' lifelong interest in diagrams made him chart the political, cultural and social history as well as art history and the chronology of Fluxus. In 1963, Maciunas composed the first Fluxus Manifesto, (see above), which called upon its readers to: > ...purge the world of bourgeois sickness, 'intellectual', professional & > commercialized culture ... PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART, > ... promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples, not only critics, > dilettantes and professionals ... FUSE the cadres of cultural, social & > political revolutionaries into united front & action. Shared by its sibling art movements Pop Art and minimalism, Fluxus expressed a countercultural sentiment to the value of art and the modes of its experience –distinctly achieved by its commitment to collectivism and to decommodifying and deaestheticizing art. Its aesthetic practitioners, valuing originality over imitating overworked forms, reconceptualized the art object and the nature of performance through musical 'concerts', 'olympic' games, and publications.

After two years as the "Vagabonding" columnist at Salon, Potts began to contribute travel dispatches from Asia, South America, and Europe to a variety of venues, including National Public Radio, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Islands, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and The Smart Set. A number of these articles were later anthologized, including "Tantric Sex For Dilettantes," a Perceptive Travel story that was chosen for The Best American Travel Writing 2006, and "The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra," a World Hum story that appeared in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2. Potts has also written about U.S. military reading lists for The New Yorker, Islamist Sayyid Qutb's travel memoirs for The Believer, mockbuster B-movies for the New York Times Magazine,, Allen Ginsberg's poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra" for The Nation., and the murder of small-college football player Brandon Brown for Sports Illustrated.

82 The worst potential effects of the system were mitigated during intensive conflicts such as the Napoleonic Wars by heavy casualties among senior ranks, which resulted in many non- purchase vacancies, and also discouraged wealthy dilettantes who were not keen on active service, thereby ensuring that many commissions were exchanged for their face value only. There was also the possibility of promotion to brevet army ranks for deserving officers. An officer might be a subaltern or Captain in his regiment, but might hold a higher local rank if attached to other units or allied armies, or might be given a higher Army rank by the Commander-in- Chief or the Monarch in recognition of meritorious service or a notable feat of bravery. Officers bearing dispatches giving news of a victory (such as Waterloo), often received such promotion, and might be specially selected by a General in the field for this purpose.

As such, Tismăneanu writes, he spearheaded the most damaging campaigns in the cultural field, "designed to terrorize Romania's intellectual class": "the destruction of Romanian Academy research institutes, the [Academy's own] mutilation, the forced Sovietization [...] the gaudy kowtowing at Russian culture (as it had been defined under the Stalinist canon) [...] the promotion of fanatics, of the ideologically possessed, impostors and dilettantes, to high cultural offices".Tismăneanu & Vasile, pp.16–17 Răutu's monopoly on the humanities is also credited with having incapacitated the development of independent ideas in Romanian philosophy and sociology, as well as with the near-complete elimination of psychology as a credible academic subject.Tismăneanu & Vasile, pp.17, 19, 28, 30–31 Instructed by Gheorghiu-Dej, the Agitprop chief even targeted Romania's pre-communist Marxist current as the school of "Menshevism"—announcing, in 1951, that Constantin Dobrogeanu- Gherea, the father of Romanian social democracy, was worthy of condemnation.

He was a tall, erect, distinguished- > looking man, who, with his white hair, blue eyes, ruddy complexion, white > mustache, and in his manner and dress, conveyed the impression that he might > have come from the English landed aristocracy. He was perfectly cordial, but > gave us clearly to understand that our rather similar views on such matters > as foreign policy and the administration in Washington were no basis for > familiarity. The New York Times wrote: > He did consider himself an aristocrat, and his imposing stature-- tall, with > a muscular body weighing over , his erect soldierly bearing, his reserved > manner and his distinguished appearance--made it easy for him to play that > role. But if he was one, he was an aristocrat, according to his friends, in > the best sense of the word, despising the idle rich and having no use for > parasites, dilettantes or mere pleasure-seekers, whose company, clubs and > amusements he avoided.

On 26 January 2014, Dozhd ran a survey on its website and on its live "Dilettantes" discussion program asking viewers if Leningrad should have been surrendered to the invading Nazi army in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives (presenters cited Viktor Astafyev and compared it with the 1812 capture of vacant Moscow). Within 30 minutes, Dozhd removed the poll and apologized for incorrect wording. In the following days Dozhd was criticized by politicians, activists, State Duma members and Valentina Matvienko for its online poll on the Leningrad siege of World War II. Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin's press secretary, also criticized the channel and said that they violated "more than a law". Yuri Pripachkin, President of the Cable Television Association of Russia (AKTR), said that he wanted "to take functions of censoring". In a resolution backed by the St. Petersburg legislature’s deputies, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika was requested to “conduct an investigation into provocative material posted on the website of the Dozhd television channel … and take appropriate measures, including shutting down the channel.” On 29 January, the largest Russian TV providers disconnected the channel.