Word: highbrow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jazz--good jazz--is America's only original contribution to the music of the world", continued Professor Hill. It reveals a typical American mood and possesses a new and vital-rhythm. How far that mood and rhythm may be applied to what you probably call 'highbrow' music remains to be seen. Some American composer with a proper sense of style who is well grounded in both types of music may embody all the features of jazz in a symphonic composition...
...Will some popular jazz composer acquire the technique that is necessary to raise his work out of the jazz class or will some 'highbrow' composer make use of the principles of jazz? I don't know. It may reach out either way. The danger is that in the process the jazz will lose its original flavor. The result would be a hopeless failure. A symphonic composition is not good just because it is a symphonic composition--jazz is not bad just because it is jazz...
...been extremely varied, like the ebb and flow of the tides. Although the study of statistics is likely to be anathema to the sensitive and intellectual soul, a glance at the football game records in the Harvard H Book ought to fire a spark of interest even in the highbrow. The first battle with Dartmouth was held in 1882, when each player believed, like Samson, that his source of strength lay in his side-burns. From then on, the results of these games and the positions which they occupied upon the schedule appears to have a definite connection of cause...
...overestimates the information of its readers. " This is the outstanding sin of highbrow journalism. . . "The ideal magazine article should be written as if the men and women who were to read it had just dropped from the planet Mars...
...written in the vernacular, as it should be. Academic jargon is not vernacular; neither is cheap slang. Good ideas are kept out of circulation because they are concealed by highbrow language, whereas lowbrow journalism debauches American speech...