Word: highbrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps more important pop entertainment was politicized by the entrance of blacks into Hollywood genres in some cases constituting acts every bit as political as the more highbrow whites filmed social commentary. One decent film emerged from the trashleap to become the biggest black but of the year perhaps of them all. Super...
...made a clear decision that I was going to be strictly commercial or that I was going to provide a radical alternative. But either would have been a false decision. I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. I hate the idea that acting like a jackass is beneath me, that I'm some kind of cultural uplifter...
...games than Parker Brothers. But all the divertissements rest upon a single process -the breakup of phenomena into categories. It has been so ever since Auguste Comte invented the "science" and divided human progress into three stages, theological, metaphysical and positive. In recent times, the games people played included Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow, U and non-U, Soul and no Soul. Now comes the first new pop-soc. parlor game of the '70s-Consciousness...
...little literary journals meant nothing to the new writers of the decade, who could find big money and broader fame in relatively large-circulation magazines like Esquire, Harper's and Atlantic. As Macauley, now fiction editor of Playboy, remarked last week: "The middlebrow magazines caught up with the highbrow magazines-and raided...