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...from pop. Together they produce a lilting, carefree music that crosses so many stylistic lines that they are the only rock group to be invited to both the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Berkeley Folk Festival, not to mention gigs with the San Francisco Symphony and TV's highbrow Bell Telephone Hour...
...single concept." Other than that, it does not have to be a newspaper in the traditional sense. "It could be a vastly smaller operation with a different philosophy and outlook," says one publisher. "I've always thought that there was a place in New York for another highbrow newspaper," says Walter Lippmann. "It's what the Herald Tribune should have been and what the W.J.T. was not. I mean an excellent newspaper, not a big paper like the Times. It should have the best art, music, financial and political criticism that you could get. I wouldn...
Endless Stream. In the past 15 years or so, he had set out to raise "my people's musical education." He preached against the "highbrow poses" of music teachers who, with their force-feeding methods, "inculcate hatred of music instead of love." His revolutionary techniques for teaching music-using singing, games and pictures-were introduced in 108 elementary schools in Hungary and widely copied in the U.S. and elsewhere (TIME...
...Lyndon Johnson: "By now, the term Great Society has become the object of Bronx cheers and other catcalls, both highbrow and lowbrow. That was only to be expected. As for me, I have just reread [President Johnson's Ann Arbor speech], and I esteem it now, as I did when it was made, as one of the ten or twelve great milestones in American history...
...first unabashedly highbrow publication in Mormon history, Dialogue* gets no financial support from the church, is designed to keep intelligent, educated Mormons who might otherwise fall by the wayside within the community of Saints. Its tone contrasts sharply with that of the vast array of official Mormon publications-ranging from Salt Lake City's daily Deseret News to the Relief Society Magazine, a women's monthly-which read like house organs and propagate what one Dialogue editor calls "the myth of the unruffled Mormon," impervious to doubt. In reality, argues Dialogue's book-review editor, Richard...