Word: highbrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ellen Glasgow, "she arouses in me a dark suspicion." Cabell's suspicion is that Ellen Glasgow "is a gentlewoman as well as a genius in an era unfavorable to either. . . ." Ellen Glasgow has aroused even darker suspicions among U.S. readers. They have suspected that she is dull or highbrow, and have translated their suspicions into a considerable lack of interest. Some who have read her Barren Ground, without reading They Stooped to Folly, consider her a too stern daughter of the voice of God. Others who have read The Romantic Comedians, but not Vein of Iron, consider...
...open to suggestion on policy. The last play Too Much Johnson was a valiant effort to gather a lowbrow audience after the two highbrow plays failed financially...
...President Mikhail Kalinin there were worse bugs than those in the Soviet production machinery. Said he of his comrades: "They sit in a nest of bedbugs and discuss deep-mindedly what will be the peculiarities of men living under full-fledged Communism. They pronounce highbrow speeches on the education of children and breed bedbugs as best they...
...become a successful genre, and a vital branch of our culture. Until it does, the ballet of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the Original Ballet Russe, and the other remnants of the Diaghilev troupe, remains here on suffrage, kept alive by a demand for spectacle of a highbrow, somewhat snobbish, sort...
HARVARD'S highbrow readers will cast the book aside after one look at the jacket. Intelligent folks just do not read Western novels, with pictures of covered wagons and cow-punchers on the outside. So Walter Van Tilburg Clark's "The Ox-Bow Incident" would get no more than a sophisticated sneer from the educated elite...