The Russians feel obliged to break into their last memaining stores of food & drink to do a self-respecting thing as hosts to a distinguished foreigner.
A formal Pure Conversation session requires a distinguished host who is of standing, means, and recognized intellectual caliber, and a cast of select guests.
(This is nothing new. They had a similar reaction when one of their on-air hosts decided to protest a distinguished service award for Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly).
Mehrotra is in the company of a host of distinguished unsuccessful candidates for the position, including CS Lewis, FR Leavis, Robert Lowell and Stephen Spender.
A host of distinguished visiting artists including Jeremy Denk, Daniel Hope, and the Orion and Shanghai String Quartets will perform at this festival nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where Garrick Ohlsson is artist in residence.
He worked on them first with Gerald Moore, doyen of pure accompanists, and then was partnered by a host of distinguished solo pianists and the conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, each of whom inspired him to refreshingly new insights.
His father, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, did the honors when Pope Benedict XVI visited New York in 2008 and wanted a distinguished synagogue to host the first visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to a Jewish place of worship in the United States.
Albert S. Friends at 88 mourn the passing of our neighbor, a kind, witty, and gentle man; a caring and conscientious physician; a distinguished writer; a host of exceptional charm; and a cherished friend.
My hosts were the Singhs -- Navneet, a distinguished former army captain in one of India's oldest rifle regiments, and his wife, Deepika, an artist whose delicate renderings of Kanha's tigers and birds decorate the walls.
In recent years it's witnessed sets by Erol Alkan, Fake Blood, Jackmaster, Mia Dora and Jazzy B among a host of other distinguished names.
