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Pondering these matters, Raymond Aron, a former philosophy professor who has become one of France's leading highbrow political commentators, wrote in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro: "It was not necessary to have a trial in order to rouse the passions of antiSemitism, and as an instrument of government, a trial is singularly inefficient. Either the masses believe in the truth of the confessions-and in that case, what must they think of a party ruled by spies for so long?-or else they do not believe in it, but then the purpose attributed to the trials by Western...
...going gets harder. For much of Ushant is cryptic self-psychoanalysis, and is to be fully understood, perhaps, only by Aiken himself. Yet Ushant is no more difficult than the earlier chapters of James Joyce's Ulysses, and one of the fall's favorite games in U.S. highbrow circles will be trying to untangle...
...Highbrow gobbledygook of the week (from Hemingway: The Writer as Artist, by Professor Carlos Baker of Princeton University): "Despite the insistent, denotative matter-of-factness at the surface of the presentation, the subsurface activity of A Farewell to Arms is organized connotatively around two poles. By a process of accrual and coagulation, the images tend to build round the opposed concepts of Home and Not-Home. Neither, of course, is truly conceptualistic; each is a kind of poetic intuition, charged with emotional values and woven, like a cable, of many strands...
...went on to say that the campaign is especially interesting from his point of view because it pits a "popular hero" against a "semi-unknown political highbrow...
Harvard's chill Fogg Museum has built up its $20 million collection on the theory that the best way to learn about art is to study masterpieces. Those who apply themselves most earnestly to the Fogg's masterpieces are inclined to be a highbrow lot, and their favorite painting is Lucas Van Leyden's cool, subtle Angel...