Word: highbrow
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...Muddy-Brow. The most interesting thing about Miss Foley's book this time is that it seems to reflect an internal reorientation in the avant-garde literary world. Half of her stories are from the highbrow little magazines, but these are no more experimental or daring - and no better in quality - than the stories she picks from the slicks and fashion magazines. One reason: increasingly these days, magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle have been offering more than the little magazines can pay for the work of the more understandable in the avantgarde...
...transition has been made easy by the fact that the highbrow journals themselves are becoming increasingly conventional in their stories. Thus, the distance between high and middlebrow is gradually shortening, and the two are merging to form a dubious amalgam : the muddy-brow...
Walker is not interested in golf, polo or social functions, prefers hunting & fishing. He does not smoke, but takes an occasional drink and likes a joke if it is not complicated or highbrow...
...anti-socialist too." The Rev. Dr. Vigo Auguste Demant, 56, Canon of Christ Church in Oxford, thus predicted the public reaction to his series of eight 40-minute lectures over the BBC's uncompromisingly highbrow Third Program. Last week, as the series ended, Canon Demant had made such a hit that the BBC was planning to put him on its middlebrow Home Service next fall...
What makes Novelist Romain Gary's pessimism significant is that it is not just the outpouring of a maladjusted highbrow. Gary is no Sartre watching life as a spectator. A French career diplomat now stationed in Bern, Switzerland, he has behind him a solid record as a fighter pilot in the French Air Force, which he joined in 1938. His novel, written in 1947-48, shows the extent to which many in Europe had lost heart, and lost their grip on the beliefs that made Europe great, in the fifth decade of the 20th Century...