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dilettante a person who loves the arts How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This choice of location could only have been made by dilettantes who have no idea how the Valley operates, our lack of public transportation or the cores of densely populated areas that could have benefited by the new museum. We are to trust God that we may not become dilettantes or impostors mouthing someone else's lines but be true to our own confession of faith. While one can offer arguments to support the contention that the studenchestvo as an autonomous group disappeared under Soviet power and that many of the characteristics traditionally associated with the "student movement" had vanished by the late 1920's, the evidence in the student press shows that students refused to cast off their self-designated roles of political critics, social commentators, peer adjudicators and unconventional dilettantes. |
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