Word: browed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tedium & Hilarity. A less bitter critic than Maugham will not wonder long, after dipping into Classics and Commercials. It has all of Wilson's occasional faults: casual superciliousness, high-brow reserve, lack of warmth. But it also illustrates most of his more important virtues: a literary curiosity that ranges from horror stories and a life of John Barrymore to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and the precious hot-house blooms of Ronald Fir-bank (TIME, Nov. 21, 1949), an oldfashioned, discursive style, an artful way of saying exactly what a writer is up to while explaining...
Kidder, in honor of whom the medal is named, is a member of the faculty of Peabody Museum. John O. Brow, director of the Peabody Museum, said last night that, "Dr. Kidder is America's foremost living archaeologist...
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...varsity sailing team will travel to Providence tomorrow for the Brow Fall Invitation Regatta. Charlie McElroy will be skipper of the A-boat with Tom Chinlund as crew. Charlie Hoppin will captain the B-boat and will have John Newhall for crew...
...r.p.m. doughnut-hole discs). The question was what to put in it. The obvious answer was to prowl through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (sung by Marian Anderson); Franz Liszt's Liebestraum (performed by the First Piano Quartet); Victor...