Word: highbrow
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...Bridges' verse, in truth, is, perhaps, a little top "highbrow" for the general public. Moreover, its prosody treats of stresses and not syllables. Nevertheless, his verse is recognized for its restraint, purity, precision and strength...
...caliber is surprisingly high, one may feel well fortified against the entrenchments of the imminent winter, when hegiras to Boston seem long and arduous. The infant industry has a way of filling in empty hours which is pleasant and occasionally beneficial. It serves well as a target for the highbrow's scorn but it also serves equally well as a remedy for his ennui...
...tacit admission in advertising form that the millions who pay a dime to hang on an enameled strap might like to cast their eyes upward and see the attractions of the current number. The man in the street noticed that the magazines which he had hitherto correctly stigmatized as highbrow now contained opinions of dominant people on controversial matters. The articles had a pleasant downrightness as different from the style of the newspaper editorial writer as a dopester's diagnosis before a fight is unrecognizable twenty-four hours later in the same dopester turned raconteur. The magazine publisher...
...that have made the U. S. suspicious, as a nation, of any music less candid than jazz and coon songs, no factor is more important than the brevity of pieces played on the phonograph. There came a time when the whole difference between "I-know-what-I-like" and "highbrow" music was measured in inches. A ten-inch record was the familiar thing. A twelve-inch record signified something long and probably boring-"Chocolate Soldier Medley," perhaps, or "Selections from La Traviata." The music of the people was not bedight with red, gold and purple seals...
...esteem of the thinkers in our oldest American university. Advertising agencies and national advertisers will please take notice that in esteem, if not in circulation, we outrank the Ladies' Home Journal, the Pictorial Review, Vanity Fair, Judge, Life, and the Police Gazette. Who shall say hereafter that the highbrow student does not turn to highbrow publications? Henceforth we shall have no doubts as to the progress of the intellectual life among he Harvard undergraduates--not even when they call Princeton rough, decline to sing at glee-club contests, assault and are assaulted by the police, and generally...