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- catalog abstract ""A Moravian by birth, a musician by avocation, a writer by choice, and a bon vivant almost by instinct, Joseph Wechsberg was among a generation of writers that included M.F.K. Fisher, A.J. Liebling, Waverly Root, and Ludwig Bemelmans. Many of them found a home for their work at The New Yorker and were given carte blanche to tackle any subject they found appealing." "Wechsberg was a connoisseur in the old Continental sense of the word, a man who valued perfection for its own sake, seeing its quest as worthy and its attainment as eminently possible. Born in 1907 into a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family, he saw his comfortable life threatened by World War I and then extinguished by Hitler's annexation of his native Czechoslovakia. He came to America with only a basic command of English but an impressive understanding of what was happening in Europe. His most powerful essays, describing the tragic political fragmentation of Europe at the end of World War II, are never strident or bitter; his appreciations of Europe's finer offering are a sheer delight."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11205928.
- catalog contributor b11205929.
- catalog coverage "Europe Civilization 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Europe Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Europe History Miscellanea.".
- catalog coverage "Europe Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""A Moravian by birth, a musician by avocation, a writer by choice, and a bon vivant almost by instinct, Joseph Wechsberg was among a generation of writers that included M.F.K. Fisher, A.J. Liebling, Waverly Root, and Ludwig Bemelmans. Many of them found a home for their work at The New Yorker and were given carte blanche to tackle any subject they found appealing."".
- catalog description ""Wechsberg was a connoisseur in the old Continental sense of the word, a man who valued perfection for its own sake, seeing its quest as worthy and its attainment as eminently possible. Born in 1907 into a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family, he saw his comfortable life threatened by World War I and then extinguished by Hitler's annexation of his native Czechoslovakia. He came to America with only a basic command of English but an impressive understanding of what was happening in Europe. His most powerful essays, describing the tragic political fragmentation of Europe at the end of World War II, are never strident or bitter; his appreciations of Europe's finer offering are a sheer delight."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Conclusive characters. Henre Soulé : the ambassador in the sanctuary -- Warburg : the nonconformist -- Albert Schweitzer : toccata and fugue -- Preferred places. The Bois de Boloulogne -- Vienna : an introduction -- Perfect service : London's Savoy Hotel, and others -- Perfect pitch. The Vienna Staatsoper : a question of reverberation -- The Budapest string quartet -- Stradivari : ne plus ultra -- Timeless taste. Fernand Point : the finest butter and lots of time -- Afternoon at the Château d'Yquem -- A lyric life. A very late confession -- My father's cuff links -- No obstetrician in our quartet -- The Bund Deutcher Mädel. The children of Lidice.".
- catalog extent "x, 289 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Trifles make perfection.".
- catalog identifier "1567920926 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Trifles make perfection.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Godine,".
- catalog relation "Trifles make perfection.".
- catalog spatial "Europe Civilization 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Europe Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Europe History Miscellanea.".
- catalog spatial "Europe Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog subject "940 21".
- catalog subject "D1051 .W43 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Conclusive characters. Henre Soulé : the ambassador in the sanctuary -- Warburg : the nonconformist -- Albert Schweitzer : toccata and fugue -- Preferred places. The Bois de Boloulogne -- Vienna : an introduction -- Perfect service : London's Savoy Hotel, and others -- Perfect pitch. The Vienna Staatsoper : a question of reverberation -- The Budapest string quartet -- Stradivari : ne plus ultra -- Timeless taste. Fernand Point : the finest butter and lots of time -- Afternoon at the Château d'Yquem -- A lyric life. A very late confession -- My father's cuff links -- No obstetrician in our quartet -- The Bund Deutcher Mädel. The children of Lidice.".
- catalog title "Trifles make perfection : the selected essays of Joseph Wechsberg / edited and with an introduction by David Morowitz.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Miscellanea. fast".
- catalog type "text".