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...problem faced the New York Post Syndicate, which signed Welles to a three-year contract: would the column hold Welles's interest, as well as the reader's? Welles, who has taken a Hollywood highbrow's vocal interest in the world since 1940, was reassuring. "Right now I'm much more interested in politics and foreign affairs than I am in the theater," said he. "I have set up my life in such a way that I can spend more than occasional time on these interests...
...mellow humor that pervades it and the good-natured approval of the people, of their work, their strivings, the pleasure in their triumphs, the sympathy with their struggles and hardships, give his books life and animation on subjects and people that had been synonymous with academic dullness and highbrow hairsplitting...
...Casino--Into this strictly highbrow conessdon for a long show--fifteen minute intermission every hour--Frank Sam-one led his party for something different. In the party were Jason Widmer and Tom Robinson, pushing Bob Shepherd before them...
...fellow craftsmen who know him consider him the most skilled practitioner of a most difficult kind of book reviewing. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, when he edited the Freeman, said that Lisle Bell had invented a new form, ranked him with highbrow Scottish Critic Edwin Muir. Poet Marianne Moore, who edited the Dial's brief booknotes for the ten years Bell contributed, called one cluster of his reviews the best thing she had seen. The reason why Reviewer Bell has never received recognition for his services to U.S. letters: his 17,000 reviews have been written as a sideline, while...
...come full circle, that the kind of situations and characterizations that ten years ago were the province of left-wing intellectuals have become the substance of skillful popular writing. In Land I Have Chosen the anti-Nazi propaganda is the basis of popular appeal; the story Southampton is highbrow, subtle, and in effect smuggled into the book...