Word: lowbrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ciardi had misgivings about the ability of commercial old lowbrow America to recognize true Greatness overnight. "J.B., it must be added, is strong stuff," he warned. "Too strong, one knows, for Broadway success this season or next." But eventually all would be well, he concluded: "And yet Broadway will come to it in time, because it must, because great imagination and great talent cannot be denied forever. Meanwhile, Yale is preparing it for production, and certainly the summer theatres and the college groups throughout the country will have found a new star forever. For J.B. adds a dimension...
Summertime. The first critic to stop being constructive after 1905 was a longtime guardian angel-the college professor who once took a proprietary interest in high school standards. When professors took a good look at the proletarianized high school, they left it to what they considered a lowbrow technician-the education professor. And to figure out how to run the schools, the "educationists" seized upon Philosopher Dewey's innocent theory that children learn best by being interested instead of disciplined. It fitted the educationists problems, muses Conant, "as a key fits a lock...
Dudley's social atmosphere was called "very gregarious," "jovial and merry," but also "rowdy," "lowbrow, unattractive," and "high-schoolish." The story is told about a Social Committee meeting some years ago which was voting on whether to accept the residential inter-House ticket for the Dudley dance. "No," said one commuter firmly, "we don't want those Ivy Leaguers at our party." Staff members took that as a danger signal, and commuters are now accepting more fully the social norms of their classmates--including ties and jackets in the dining hall...
...Aurora, Ill. Y.M.C.A. by Robert W. Kendler, founder and president of the U.S. Handball Association and chief evangelist of a sport of evangelists. Kendler lives for handball; on the side, he is a Chicago millionaire (building construction). Kendler bristles at the imputation that his game is a lowbrow cousin of squash, can point to such distinguished handballers as Literary Critic Lionel Trilling and television's Art Linkletter...
...otherwise first-rate production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life.) Perhaps Gleason's worst mistake: replacing Art Carney and Audrey Meadows, who were actors, and could play up to Gleason's roaring diatribes and outrageous double takes, with Buddy Hackett, a lowbrow buffoon funny on his own but not much help to Gleason...