Word: lowbrowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burlesque, in some cases, of theater types for whom mere satire might be understatement. Yet its most successful moments stem from the actual small details of show business, and its most entertaining characters-the star's mother (Phyllis Povah) and the producer's wife (Audrey Christie)-are lowbrow rather than outrageous...
...Angeles, highbrow Composer Igor Stravinsky (The Firebird) sued Music Publisher Lou Levy (Beat Me Daddy) for $250,000. Levy had published a lowbrow version of a Firebird theme (TIME, Nov. 3), and described the music as Stravinsky's, said Stravinsky. He said he had positively not written it, and the whole thing was terribly humiliating...
...lowbrow, lusty New York Daily News, which sells more copies (2,350,000) than any other U.S. daily, was 29 years old last week-and feeling a little sensitive about praise from an unexpected quarter. In an article in Harper's called "Great Newspapers, If Any" of the U.S. press, Journalist Gerald W. Johnson had ranked the News high-as a business enterprise, at least...
...camp ground is the best site found so far for the study of the early Californian, an unimaginative lowbrow if there ever was one. Pinto Man did his hunting with a "throwing stick" which projected stone-tipped spears. He made no pottery, knew no agriculture...
...commonsensical common man will always ultimately take his stand. The trouble is that certain fascist "extremes" have lately had a curious way of coming to power and hence locally ceasing to be extremes. Liberal Germans have testified that they found the early Hitler quite the same sort of unpromising lowbrow crank as the Crimson evidently imagines Gerald Smith to be. Well, the Reverend Smith is not even now an ineffectual angel; he is held by many, and with reason, to have been the main organizer of the wartime Detroit race-riot. This would suggest that there is a nonacademic quality...