Word: highbrowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stenographer: "I am walking in the bed of a river," clapped on his hat and walked out. never to return. Through his artist brother, Karl, he met the "Chicago group" of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg et al.) and began to write in earnest. Highbrow critics liked his work, praised it from the start...
Once considered a smart young bad boy of English letters, Aldous Huxley is conquering his cleverness, subduing it to a useful tool. Born a highbrow, he has become an uncommonly sensible intellectual realist. There are times in this collection of essays when he reminds you of the late forthright Enoch Arnold Bennett. The voice is similar but the hands are different: for Huxley is on the whole preoccupied with universal, not parochial, themes...
Bronston (to her): And you button up your kisser. What do you think this joint is?the Ritz? You highbrow dames that go slumming give me a pain...
...York Evening Post which spends much of its editorial time in the field of college activity came out recently with a denunciation of the "highbrow" drift which had swept away the old college Glee Club. Says the Post. "College boys are not professional singers. The Mendelssohn and other choral societies meet a fine public need. But the undergraduate should not be called upon to live up to their standards of excellence. The under-graduate should express and control his own music just as he should express and control his own football...
...finally in objection to the Post's feelings about "highbrow" music, we are willing to admit that the programs of the Glee Clubs which we occasionally hear may be of the hybrid nature, calculated to tickle the palate of the lover of purely "college music" as well as that of the listener more interested in tone and technique. If, however, it were to be the sentiment that such hybrid programs should be removed, we would be far more in favor of breeding a pure strain of "highbrow music" than of fostering the tunes which we ourselves may shout...