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...Beliefs are decisive. Beliefs made the Ten Years [1940-49] what they were. Catastrophic beliefs engendered catastrophe." Thus highbrow British Author Frederick A. Voigt, a member of the Church of England, diagnoses the illnesses of the times. The articles of modern man's creed, says Voigt, in England's Roman Catholic magazine The Month...
London theatergoers, highbrow and low, have already learned that such language delivered by fine actors is tremendously moving stuff. While U.S. audiences wait for the chance to see Fry's play next autumn, they can have the shine of it at the nearest bookstore...
...Americans have had the dubious pleasure of meeting Thomas Stearns Eliot. To most of them, he is an expatriate, obscurely highbrow poet who wrote an unreadable poem called The Waste Land and fathered a catch-phrase about the world ending not with a bang but a whimper...
Over the years The Turn of the Screw has become more than a notable ghost story to chill the blood: it has become a kind of highbrow mystery story to challenge the mind. Pre-Freudian but often strikingly akin to Freud, it hints at something sexual in the governess' feeling for the boy, at something homosexual between the boy and the valet. It has been explained, a little too ingeniously, as a pure hallucination of the governess'. But first, last and always, it is a ghost story; and ghosts owe their audiences only an experience, not an explanation...
...almost ten years, while most of commercial radio has been resolutely aiming at the lowest common denominator, unsponsored Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS) has been persistently and unashamedly highbrow. Radiomen called it "Columbia's Hour of Silence" because they were sure that no listeners could possibly want to hear about Plato's Republic or Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. Even the CBS publicity department once recognized its lack of mass appeal by referring to it as "the 69th most popular program...