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...slave" (Marshal Sokolovsky). "He is a babbling Belgrade parrot ... a bad actor. Imitating that hypocrite and poseur Churchill, Tito wanted to be a hunter, writer and chess player, but like Churchill he is a bad shot, a still worse writer, and at chess he is beaten even by the lowbrow Pijade . . . Greedy and insatiable as Goering." (Literary Gazette...
...readers did adopt Walt Whitman as a national poet, but the clash between the two men dramatized the perennially split personality of American writing. Critic Philip Rahv has aptly defined it as a clash between "paleface and redskin." This is critical shorthand for the interrelated battles of highbrow v. lowbrow, refined sensibility v. raw energy, the tradition-directed writer v. the self-made writer. The palefaces, e.g., Hawthorne, Melville, James, ruled the 19th century; the redskins, e.g., Dreiser, Anderson, Wolfe, Hemingway, Faulkner, rule the 20th. As the first great chief of the redskins, Whitman would take ironic relish...
...corner drugstore for well under a dollar. 'Oh, it may have a few reproduction flaws,' he said, 'but this cheap little music-for-the-masses disk contains a flamboyant Scheherazade worthy of your steel.' " The connoisseur was so unsettled that he discussed the lowbrow disk at length, thus shattering his reputation. "A chamber-music man, my foot!" was the consensus. Bonnard, on the other hand, "now is recognized as one of the leading connoisseurs in all greater Astoria...
...Your "Aroma in Oklahoma" [July 19] gives a lively report on the political capers of candidates in that lowbrow-dominated commonwealth. Perhaps a remedy for the odorous buffoonery which travesties democracy in Oklahoma and her sister states is to be found in another article which appeared in your same issue: the new government of Guatemala has deprived that country's illiterates of the privilege of voting...
...Thrilling? It is no longer a rich man's monopoly (although it is still dependent on wealthy men willing to invest in the breeding, training and racing of thoroughbreds). Its adherents are a mixed bag of rich and poor, high, middle-and lowbrow: those who get their kicks from the beauty of the horse and the excitement of the race, those who look only at the tote board, those who find in the combination of these attractions all the attributes of a poker game, circus, picnic, athletic contest, suspense movie, as well as an escape from the lesser, daily race...