Word: high-brow
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...high-brow way of manifesting fear is for the critic to become moralistic, as if such art were not a personal affront, no, but an affront to the Western Tradition, frivolous, you see, considering the Nature of the Times We Live...
...cohorts in other states, may be attempting to insulate the better classes from life and to keep the lower classes groveling in it. In support of this view, the following data can be added to the summary of the Square study: "Playboy" magazine, lately the recognized journal of high-brow and middle-brow culture, is how under prosecution in New York for a photo feature on the export version of a recent Jayne Mansfield movie. Freely for sale, cheap in the Square is Jayne Mansfield's Wild, Wild World, with an obscenity density of 27.60 and the same pictures "Playboy...
...embracing non-conformity, he said, Americans must beware of a "high-brow conformity" producing individuals who claim: "I'm a real flesh-and-blood non-conforming individualists just like everybody else...
...idea of "controlled improvisation" to free classical music from its "slavery to the printed note" first occurred to Composer Foss while listening to the high-brow jazz of the Modern Jazz Quartet three years ago. Foss invited a group of classical players-all former composition students of his at U.C.L.A.-to get together and improvise freely in a classical counterpart to the jazz manner. They soon had to give up that approach: "We just daydreamed; we didn't make music." What he was looking for, Foss realized, was a group improvisation in which every player would in some...
...Best Actor division there is a real dilemma. No one can complain if either Marlon Brando (Viva Zapata), or Gary Cooper (High Noon), wins. But if the Academy falls back on Jose Farrier because he is famous, influential, and a high-brow actor, it will be chopping up the last remnant of its already tattered prestige...