Word: browed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Muddy-Brow. The most interesting thing about Miss Foley's book this time is that it seems to reflect an internal reorientation in the avant-garde literary world. Half of her stories are from the highbrow little magazines, but these are no more experimental or daring - and no better in quality - than the stories she picks from the slicks and fashion magazines. One reason: increasingly these days, magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle have been offering more than the little magazines can pay for the work of the more understandable in the avantgarde...
...transition has been made easy by the fact that the highbrow journals themselves are becoming increasingly conventional in their stories. Thus, the distance between high and middlebrow is gradually shortening, and the two are merging to form a dubious amalgam : the muddy-brow...
...ZANUCK ADMIRER, I'M NOT BLIND TO THE POSSIBILITY THAT CELLULOID FINDING ITSELF IN ACTUAL CONTACT WITH ZANUCK'S BROW MIGHT SPONTANEOUSLY DEVELOP AN EXTRA SPROCKET HOLE...
Poet Martin Farquhar Tupper heard the shocking news and immediately produced a suitable poem: 0 dastard! Thus to strike that brow...
...meteoric new playwright, who, like Eliot, had turned the trick of making poetic drama a sizzling box-office hit. A year ago, few even in London literary circles had heard of Christopher Fry. Last week the name was marquee magic that packed two theaters with customers of all brow heights. The plays: Fry's Venus Observed, produced, directed and acted by Sir Laurence Olivier...