Word: browism
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...really trying to create a sex magazine,? Hefner told Bentley. ?I was trying to give sex a good name in a context of a lifestyle magazine.? How very true. Playboy wasn?t just about the sex. It was about being accepted by the arbiters of 50s middle-browism. That brow has disappeared. Now there?s a tiny high-brow culture and a vast low- or no-brow one. Playboy and Hef stayed in the center that did not hold...
What may be confused with intellectual high browism is a strong sense of tradition that pervades the House--a sense that is jealously guarded by Eliot Perkins '23 the present Master. It is Perkins' interest that sets the tone and his activity is felt directly and indirectly in many ways. From the pungent communiques on the bulletin board in his own distinct style to the ceremonial lighting of the Christmas Yale log he is a focus of House spirit...
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