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...growing up” tale is a staple of college newspapers. Its formulaic version involves some small event convincing the narrator of his or her newfound maturity, thus spawning an epiphany: he or she belongs in the Real World. Having read a fair number of such pieces and, in highbrow manner, dismissed virtually all of them as hopelessly cliché, it was with reluctance, and even embarrassment, that over the past week, I realized I was living through...
...manly man is back. Some data points: Harvard prof Harvey Mansfield's highbrow Manliness cites Achilles to, yes, Margaret Thatcher for such qualities as honor, bravery, pigheadedness. Meanwhile, monobrowed blogger Maddox's best seller Alphabet of Manliness high-fives hot sauce, Chuck Norris, chainsaws. Here, more evidence it's reigning...
...what of North Carolina Central University? The historically black university and the predominantly white Duke cooperate in a handful of academic ventures - the kind of highbrow intellectual programs that mean little to their students. While some students from the universities interact socially, recent events have made many realize for the first time that there is, in fact, another university in Durham...
...into context. “The new historicism is to restore high cultural artifacts to the complexity of the circumstances that produced them,” he says.Stevens adds that the inclusion of mass culture on the syllabus “exerts pressure on those who teach highbrow [works].”But Menand is not so naïve to think that there will be no opposition to the trend he embraces. “There are people who think that the study of literature should be restricted to works that we pay close literary analysis to, that students...
Unveiled just two weeks ago, Google Video boasts a variety of content, including episodes of the highbrow Charlie Rose show and such lower-brow fare as Star Trek: Voyager. Inexplicably, the site also offers a bizarre assortment of homemade videos begging for quality control...