Dr. Koprowski, who spent more than 30 years as the director of the Wistar Institute, a biomedical research center in Philadelphia, was widely described as a titanic, sometimes polarizing figure: a refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland, he was a trained concert pianist, a fluent speaker of seven languages, a connoisseur of food and wine, and a collector of old master paintings.
This is the language of a connoisseur admiring a masterpiece.
To a wine novice, the language of the connoisseur can sound like a foreign tongue, wrapped in metaphor, color and irrepressible sense memories.
Grantham, who says that "this time it's different are the four most dangerous words in the English language," has become a connoisseur of bubbles.
He spent hours in the library poring over descriptions of the world's most exotic languages, and becoming a connoisseur of strange grammars.
Describe them out loud using specific language, the way a wine connoisseur would talk about the characteristics of different wines.
It draws hundreds of musicians, connoisseurs of Yiddish language and amateur anthropologists eager to delve into the extinguished Jewish cultures of Eastern Europe.
But Mr. Wolfe thinks many connoisseurs of the language will make the trek to his industrial area because the Hunters Point Avenue subway station is just a few stops on the No. 7 train from Midtown.
But to a true connoisseur, a lover of language, traveling Roget's branching lines of categories and subcategories to explore subtle shifts in meaning provides its own adventure.
When I asked about it, she kindly sent me a scan of the document, which will be of interest to specialists in the obscure and complex field of Space Copyright Law, and possibly a few connoisseurs of avant-garde legal language.
