Word: highbrowed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grandson of U.S. ambassadors (to Japan and Italy), Link MacVeagh gave no early sign that he would follow the family calling. Educated at Groton and Harvard, his interests were literary and classical. For ten years, as a highbrow publisher (the Dial Press), his heart was in the highlands of Greece. Commuting between Manhattan and Connecticut, he read Ulysses' voyages instead of Dow-Jones averages...
...Roman Catholic Campion Hall (for more than a decade), he turned its three-story building into a religious museum of valuable paintings, rare books, tokens. His urbane charm and cultivated mind have influenced a quarter-century's crop of Oxonians and helped bring many a British highbrow into his broadbrowed church...
Reader's Digest was the first U.S. magazine to be printed in Britain after the wartime blackout. Last week the second one popped up in London bookstores. Unlike the Digest (circ. 11 million), the second U.S. entry-Partisan Review-is a highbrow magazine almost as unfamiliar to most Americans as it is to Britons. But it quickly sold...
Because he admires the Partisan Review so much, Editor Connolly, who publishes London's highbrow Horizon, had 1,000 photo-offset copies of Review printed, and sold them at cost (35. 6d.). Said one Bloomsbury bookseller: "American intellectuals have so much vitality that it just forces itself out from inside them, while ours just seem to be writing off the top of their minds. Why, when people have discovered Partisan Review on the shelf, their eyes have lit up with pleasure, and as you know people's eyes don't light up any more, what with...
Britain's socialist New Statesman and Nation spoke so frigidly last week because it had just been left in the cold. It was one of Britain's five influential highbrow weeklies to become a casualty of the fuel crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Government had grimly ordered the press to cut down on the use of power; and the press's own powerful proprietors' association ruled that all periodicals (but no daily or weekly newspapers) must suspend for at least a fortnight...