Word: highbrow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scott Fitzgerald, bad boy of U. S. letters, published his first novel since The Great Gatsby (1925). Somehow during those intervening years the news had leaked out that Author Fitzgerald had big ambitions, would not always be content to turn out facile potboilers for the commercial fiction magazines. Even highbrow critics admitted that The Great Gatsby had been a promising foreshadow of better books to come. Rumor spread that Author Fitzgerald was leading a double literary life, that he was writing a Dostoievskian novel in which a son kills his mother. Readers last week were relieved to discover that Tender...
...that her characters are not only stuffed but vulgar nonsense, that their actions are like the sputtering of a string of sausages in a frying pan. Her defenders reply that she has more zest in her capable little finger than there is in the ineffective fists of all her highbrow critics. Critics pay little attention to Fannie Hurst, but plain readers have made her one of the most popular dishes on the counter. Anitra's Dance tells of a wild household of hyphenated Americans noisily existing on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Head of the house was Papa Bruno...
CERCLE FRANCAIS: Rather a highbrow spot, well-known for its interesting foreign clientele. Decadent Boston and a bit of French-2 combine to give that je ne sais quoi...
...week's bill at the University. Appearing at the start as the saddened, wronged woman, her pitiful fate is written on her features with seemingly unreasonable lines. But, with the aid of movie magic, her characteristic expressions are soon reversed, she becomes the gorgeous young torch singer in a highbrow New York night club; she is a lithe figure, but experienced in handling men. She has learned...
Somerset Maugham is the fiction editor's Santa Claus. His stones are intelligent but not highbrow, well-made but not wooden, readable but not offensively scandalous. They are like the quiet but compelling conversation of a man who has seen the world and not missed much to the point. Sentimentalists find Maugham cynical, but in fact he is a psychological realist. Even sentimentalists find his common-sense melodramas refreshing after a surfeit of romance. This collection of stories is dedicated to one Ah King, a Onetime Chinese servant of Author Maugham's, who traveled with...