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...have the gumption to rent my own house to myself? So I did!" Into the 70-year-old Borden mansion on Bellevue Place on little cat feet moved Poetry and also nine other worthy cultural refugees, including the English-Speaking Union, a little theatre group and a highbrow FM station. The old house where Ellen Stevenson grew up on Chicago's Gold Coast had fallen on hard times, had been, since World War II, a boardinghouse. With a $40,000 remodeling job, Patroness Stevenson fixed it as a comfortable warren of culture, renamed it the 1020 Art Center...
...music critic of an important European journal lectures to our faculty and student body. He wants to 'make a good impression' and not to appear 'too highbrow.' So instead of moving on from his latest brilliant book on microtonality, he boldly suggests that music did not end with Chopin and Wagner...
What Author Jarrell has done is to set up a straw woman, a progressive girls' college, and then knock it down, page by page, for 277 rounds.* The result is resolutely highbrow and sometimes highly amusing, even if Author Jarrell devastates his theme and his characters more than he develops them...
...radio, no telephone; I learned of the stock-market crash in the fall of '29 only long after the event ... To many of my friends, my indifference to contemporary affairs seemed bizarre, and they often chided me with being too much of a highbrow...
...summer night in 1928, first nighters crowded into a Berlin theater to see Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), composed by a young highbrow named Kurt Weill on a text by a proletarian poet named Bert Brecht. Nobody thought it would last more than a few performances. How could an eight-piece orchestra and a tatterdemalion cast compete with the great music dramas of Wagner and the moderns? But two years later, Threepenny Opera was still running, and since then it has had thousands of performances, including a handful in the U.S. Last week it was revived in Manhattan...