It is frequently said in South Africa that a heritage of tribal society is a taste for authority.
The comics are one of childhood's fugitive pleasures, a stealth literature for reading -- GASP! -- by flashlight past bedtime, in defiance -- GULP! -- of adult taste and authority.
Tahrir remained a self-contained world: as the days passed, and the older generation continued to leave the square alone, it resembled a place where the young, the poor, and the uneducated could get a brief taste of authority before they joined the rest of the country in wherever it was going.
When, at the conclusion of the show's opening-night performance, Merrick shocked the audience and cast by announcing that its director, Gower Champion, had died, it was Mr. Orbach who had the taste and authority to request that the curtain come down.
Its transfusions not only make thousands of sportsmen and women rich beyond the dreams of their predecessors (and most of the rest of us), but they also pay for training facilities, modern stadiums, full-time coaching and efficient administration.For some tastes, the authorities sing their new message a mite too loudly.
For example, sight, and not taste, is the authority on color, but taste, and not sight, is the authority on flavor (Metaph IV 5 1010b11–17).
(Chinen) ★ Mark Helias and Michael Formanek (Saturday) Mr. Helias and Mr. Formanek are bassists with a few things in common, including a knack for robust physicality and a taste for destabilized authority.
My friend concluded that the wait was at least in part deliberate: these newcomers were given a prolonged taste of official authority before being turned loose in the country.
Martin wrote of her instinct for design as well as movement, adding, "Here is a distinguished talent, highly individual in character, with something to say, and certainly with the means to get it said with taste, imagination and authority".
These trends include evolving notions of taste, value and authority; the public's desire to understand the inner workings of once rarefied worlds; and the growing demand of audiences that their thoughts and feelings be put nearer the center of cultural experiences.
