Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacDonald charged that the customer's reaction was built into mass art. "Liberace visually underlines appropriate sentiments as he plays, so that even the most musically illiterate can tell what the music means...
Toppling idols and enjoying himself thoroughly, journalist Dwight MacDonald spoke on American culture last night, in a talk sponsored by the Advocate...
...American mass culture is a kind of parody of high culture," he declared. MacDonald described art in a high culture as an expression of the artist and standards of discipline. "Commercial mass art is anti-art," he said, "because there is no real communication between the artist and the public...
...Gould Cozzens should have gotten the Nobel Prize, but one would like to believe it. If only all the forms of intellectual laziness and disinfected passion were some-how congruent, the Enemy would be more clearly defined, easier both to see and to grapple with. But, alas, what Dwight MacDonald has dubbed "the Middlebrow Counter-Revolution" is a more diffuse and deceptive thing than that: it manifests itself in lush arrangements of Bach and suburban productions of Shakespeare, its artifacts are slow to be recognized because they are forever hiding themselves behind the skirts of greatness...
...outset. Mr. Bartley (Macdonald Carey) has the family dog "put away" without so much as consulting young Arthur. The inordinate attention lavished by Mrs. Bartley (Marsha Hunt) on her daughter's approaching marriage, plus the prosaic preoccupations of these prosaic parents, drives young Arthur to a basement escape with his contemporaries, where furtive beers foam up into braggadocio, cigarettes mingle with clumsy sex experiments, and draw poker alternates with the raw pathos that gives the picture its fleeting moments of real feeling. It is only in the quiet, anxious scenes of awakening love that Director-Co-Writer Philip Dunne...