Word: highbrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood producer can be considered highbrow, suave, grey-eyed Walter Wanger is it. Two months ago, when he was working on an ambitious picture called The Long Voyage Home (based on Eugene O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees, and Other Plays of the Sea), Producer Wanger decided to show Hollywood and the world a new high in artistic publicity. With the help of smart Manhattan Gallery Director Reeves Lewenthal, he hired nine of the best U. S. painters he could get to go to Hollywood and paint real high-brow pictures of scenes from the movie (TIME...
...Conference plan for keeping conscripts happy is simply to provide good entertainment. Usually pretty highbrow, the directors do not intend to try to force Greek drama on the soldiers. With plenty of music, roaring shows, the Conference sees a chance (with Government cooperation) to build up interest in good American theatre...
Adding its voice to the cause of a democratic revolution, highbrow Horizon proclaimed: "We are fighting for capitalism, for empire, for culture, for democracy, for Christianity. . . . Our empire must be a democratic empire, our Christianity a spiritual force, our culture a living thing, our materialism within the reach of all, and our fat sweated off us. . . . Whatever we may think of the objects of their revolution, he [Hitler] and Mussolini are active revolutionaries. They cannot be opposed successfully by the old, the rich and the rigid. . . . It is not a question of parties but of enabling all the progressive forces...
...their courses in insurance, investments, public relations, credits, economics, consumer credit, bank operations. On hand to teach them or to lecture evenings was many a big-time banker and economist: Brookings Institution's Dr. Harold Glenn Moulton, American Bankers Association President Robert March Hanes, others. Courses were not highbrow. Down to earth, they told the student bankers (most of them from small towns) how to run better banks, make more money. Sample fact taught: that consumer loans are a good and profitable risk, prejudice against them should cease. Atlanta's big Citizens & Southern National Bank handled...
...Humbug." A sort of Transcendentalist Dorothy Thompson, Margaret Fuller was No. 1 feminist writer of her day. She edited the highbrow Dial, and as Horace Greeley's first columnist ranked next to Poe as literary critic. But she is not remembered for her writing. What survives is curiosity about her personality. Biographer Wade, 26-year-old publisher's editor and book reviewer, will not satisfy the curiosity of more exacting readers, but his biography is well organized and readable. To Margaret Fuller's credit is Emerson's doting praise, many another Transcendentalist's compliments...