Word: highbrowed
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...with these highbrow attractions, the picture presents a fairly lowbrow, offstage story loosely based on Hurok's 1946 autobiography, Impresario. Hurok (David Wayne) is depicted as a sort of Russian Horatio Alger who migrated to America, and became in short order the Barnum of the arts by purveying musical culture to the masses. For drama, the picture develops a domestic schism between Hurok and his wife (Anne Bancroft), caused by his excessive devotion to his work...
Lonesome and Sorry (Bernie Green's Orchestra; Victor). Green, a sort of highbrow Spike Jones, has a lot of fun with tuba solos, banjo, chimes, etc. in a tear-jerking oldtimer...
...same time, Lewis kept firing away at his literary enemies: the "genteel philosophy" personified in William Dean Howells, a writer with "the code of a pious old maid whose greatest delight was to have tea at the vicarage"; literary commercialism, which bent the imagination to a soapsuds formula, and highbrow professors who "like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead...
...year, which appeared for the first time last week (first print order: 2,500 copies). Edited by Jesuit Father Gerald Van Ackeren, 36, who got his doctorate in theology at Rome's Gregorian University, the Digest hopes to introduce more readers to the stimulating but sometimes forbiddingly highbrow discussions of religion and philosophy which are buried in the pages of the world's theological journals...
...been pushing his close-cropped head and broad shoulders into the arts. As the son of the board chairman of Boston's Filene's department store, he could afford to lose money on his ventures, and often did. Among them the expensive, respected but short-lived highbrow magazine Hound & Horn, Harvard's Society for Contemporary Art a novel, a book of poems, a scholarly book on the dance...