Word: highbrowed
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...shall be accused of being a highbrow, but that just can't be helped." With these defensive words, Chairman of the Arts Council Sir Kenneth Clark last week accepted the chairmanship of Britain's Independent Television Authority, whose job is to bring the first commercial TV to a nation long accustomed to the often soporific British Broadcasting Corp. Sir Kenneth, 51, was formerly director of the National Gallery, Slade professor of Fine Art at Oxford, and wartime member of the Ministry of Information. His six-man board is equally highbrow and includes ex-Teacher Margaret Popham, who does...
...life cycle of little magazines compares unfavorably to that of horses, dogs, kangaroos and duck-billed platypuses. When death, as it must to all little mags, came to London's highbrow monthly Horizon in December 1949, the magazine had beaten the actuarial tables and reached the advanced old age of ten years. Since there was always more red ink than red blood in its circulation (peak figure: 10,-ooo), Horizon owed much of its vitality to two men: 1) Angel Peter Watson, the millionaire son of a milkman, who blotted up some $20,000 in losses; and 2) Editor...
Smarting under the adamant refusal of Chicago's city building commissioner to give her a liquor license for her highbrow 1020 Art Center (TIME, May 24), Mrs. Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, resigned as president of the Modern Poetry Association. But she still planned to toss a few favors and dollars toward Poetry magazine, the flat-broke association's outlet for its members' rhymes, and to make her old family mansion a shrine for longhaired folks. Ever since her Gold Coast neighbors began objecting to the club's intrusion on their quiet life...
Leon Kirchner is little known outside an energetic circle of highbrow musicians, but he is one of the most promising U.S. composers. At 35 he has won his share of prizes, among them a $5,000 award from the University of California, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award, a Walter W. Naumburg Foundation award, two Guggenheim fellowships, the imposing New York Music Critics Circle award...
...infuriated his boss Lord Beaverbrook at a dinner party by blowing a smoke ring across the table into the Beaver's open mouth.) On Lord Rothermere's Sketch he found the tabloid an incongruous place for his erudite, allusive prose. But his new job on the more highbrow Observer is just the kind of spot that Tynan has wanted ever since Oxford. On the Observer, says one of Tynan's friends, he will continue to write "what other people may be thinking but wouldn't dream of saying out loud...