Word: highbrowed
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...both Russia and the U.S., young France sees mushrooming technological civilizations, and doubts if it can ever catch up to them. Observed André Labarthe in the highbrow magazine La Nef: "French youth discovers itself harnessed to a chariot that has been bogged down for 50 years and whose drivers can only look backwards...
...never had so many working literary critics as now, never so few who seem to enjoy what they read. One result is that they are themselves seldom read except by colleagues and students. Most readers are apt to conclude that the highbrow critics dig too much and dig up too little. At worst, they suggest that literature is so serious a business that it is a mistake to look to it for pleasure...
...involve 1) a pawned pearl necklace, 2) the sale by Aunt Dahlia* of a cherished weekly, 3) a blighter who writes poetry designed to produce persp. on any decent citizen's brow. The solutions developed in Jeeves's think-tank may seem a little watery to the highbrow-critic chaps. But looking at the rosier side of the roast beef, Wodehouse is still Wodehouse, and a jolly good thing, too, what...
...days, before pool had its name changed and went highbrow, competition in all forms of billiards was keener. And the best shark in the business was not too proud to indulge in a little gamesmanship. There was "Kokomo Joe" Sachs, who splashed his hands so freely with talcum powder that he managed to bathe his opponents and the table as well. "The whole joint," recalled one victim, "looked like an explosion in a flour factory." There was Robert Cannafax, who would pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg when his game went bad. Everyone knew...
...later, U.S. readers did adopt Walt Whitman as a national poet, but the clash between the two men dramatized the perennially split personality of American writing. Critic Philip Rahv has aptly defined it as a clash between "paleface and redskin." This is critical shorthand for the interrelated battles of highbrow v. lowbrow, refined sensibility v. raw energy, the tradition-directed writer v. the self-made writer. The palefaces, e.g., Hawthorne, Melville, James, ruled the 19th century; the redskins, e.g., Dreiser, Anderson, Wolfe, Hemingway, Faulkner, rule the 20th. As the first great chief of the redskins, Whitman would take ironic relish...