Word: highbrow
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...MacDonald's thesis is essentially simple (particularly simple if one discards the watery historical analysis which so unnecessarily bloats his work). According to Mr. MacDonald there are three kinds of culture: 1. Lowbrow (including most movies, almost all television, Life, The Saturday Evening Post). 2. Highbrow (the paintings in art museums, most literature studied in universities, The Partisan Review). 3. Middlebrow (which, being the subject actually of his entire piece, will require a paragraph...
...pitched to the neophyte stereo addict. For the most part, the fun is more in the studio than in the speaker, but in some of the more fanciful numbers -Make Love to Me, High Society-the band crackles with a kind of auditory wit that suggests Spike Jones gone highbrow...
...round man of letters and longtime teacher (Harvard, Smith, Amherst, New York University, etc.), Critic Kazin admits to a "highbrow's disdain for Broadway" but also to a plain ticket buyer's irritation with the whole atmosphere of the present theater. "What I object to in the image of man on Broadway," says Kazin* "is that it is concerned largely with 'psychological man,' the man who looks at nothing but himself, his own emotional wants, his own sexual satisfactions, none of which is now news to any of us, and may for once, please...
...Highbrow or low slung, virtually all packagers operate with small flexible staffs, hire equipment and actors only as needed, produce completed films or live shows to order. This year some 300 packagers are providing 70% of the regularly scheduled network shows, a fact that to some critics explains many of TV's ills. With so much programing in the hands of outsiders, networks have little control; every rigged quiz started out as a packaged product. Some cozy alliances have been formed between the nets and packagers: NBC has traditionally catered to M.C.A. products, ABC to Warner's imitative...
...experience in "living theater." Currently, he is planning an operetta based on Chekhov's The Boor, recording albums of Broadway overtures (for Columbia), Broadway ballets (for RCA Victor), writing an autobiographical survey of the U.S. musical scene. His breathless commuting between composing and conducting, Broadway and highbrow, has earned him, in some quarters, the affectionate handle of "the Poor Man's Lenny Bernstein." What makes Lehman run? "I like to live well," says Bachelor Engel candidly. "I like to eat and I like to drink. The sad truth is I have to work to do both...