Word: high-brow
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Celebrating the University's birthday with a flurry of scholarship is not a new Harvard tradition. In 1936, the 300th birthday party included 10 seminars on high-brow academic subjects. The sessions, by noted European scholars and for other scholars, lasted up to two weeks...
...between gourmet lunches, concerts and high-brow convocations September 4-7, alumni will pick and choose from a virtual course catalogue of educational seminars designed to reflect current scholarship in most academic fields...
...effort to create a high-brow image that might set it apart from the usual Saturday-morning kiddie fare, the Disney cable-TV channel cast around for a reasonable facsimile of Masterpiece Theater Host Alistair Cooke, 74, to front Mousterpiece Theater, a series of 20 half-hour animated shorts. They found that quintessentially nasal nabob, George Plimpton, 55, already familiar to many a younger viewer not as a writer (Paper Lion) but as the Intellivision pitchman. Beginning next month, Plimpton will settle into a comfy padded chair to lecture his preliterate charges on the finer points of animation in such...
Noyes cites two of his bank's more high-brow functions--providing tax-sheltered retirement accounts for professors, and financing large purchases (of automobiles, for example) by Harvard students--as crucial to his bank's strategy...
Indeed, though And More ultimately succeeds, it remains an unbalanced collection, at once offering Rooney as both high-brow humorist and purveyor of driveling banalities. Like his television pieces, many of Rooney's columns can't be taken more than a few minutes at a time. There's a limit to how many little mysteries of daily life one can absorb in a sitting or two. Essays entitled "Glue," "Hangers," and "Pennies" lose some of their off beat charm when they follow the likes of "Bathtubs." "The Refrigerator," and "Donuts...