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“She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It’s quite a privilege to attend on her. It’s not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!”

“Its beauty of design and execution would do credit to any part of the world,” the newspaper declared.

Walter Kerr, writing in The Times, commented, “Miss Allen floats in like fresh green seaweed borne shoreward by her own tidal wave of chatter, silver slippers and gloves flashing signals like the RKO tower, whooping with laughter that would do credit to an unstrung hyena.”

Reviewing “A Musical Season,” one of several anthologies of Mr. Porter’s work, in The New York Times Book Review in 1974, the music critic John Yohalem wrote approvingly, “In a field that tends to strain verbal resources — there are just so many ways to describe a beautiful sound — Porter uses a vocabulary so wide it would do credit to a pornographer.”

Dennett's recycling credentials would do credit to the deepest of Greens.