Word: highbrow
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...white wine. Scuzzi, a very good if pricey Italian dinner restaurant, offers a wide variety of desserts, prepared to please both the palate and the eye. Located across from the Yale Art Galley on Chapel Street, Scuzzi features a delightful pumpkin pecan as well as an extensive, highbrow ice cream selection...
With his full-blown Afro, close-fitting three-piece suits and fondness for rap music, Cornel West comes across as too hip to be a philosopher. That helps explain why people are always confusing him with someone considerably less highbrow, especially when he's not on campus...
...Highbrow Southern rock from Bruce Hornsby...
...watching people on the big screen is more you speed, head to Loews Theater, on Church St. This six-screen theater shows all the mainstream highbrow movies as well as a rowdy showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" on Friday and Saturday nights. The Janus Theater, on JFK Street, has only one screen. This makes for a limited selection but a cozier atmosphere...
...middle-to-highbrow form of the assault is the ongoing frenzy about political correctness, whose object is to create the belief, or illusion, that a new and sinister McCarthyism, this time of the left, has taken over American universities and is bringing free thought to a stop. This is flatly absurd. The comparison to McCarthyism could be made only by people who either don't know or don't wish to remember what the Senator from Wisconsin and his pals actually did to academe in the '50s: the firings of tenured profs in mid- career, the inquisitions by the House...