Word: middlebrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compile a giant index of the Great Books-a learned cross-file of all the great ideas the great minds have ever voiced. Meanwhile, as a result of brisk promotion by the university-organized Great Books Foundation, adult education classes in the Great Books are becoming a nationwide middlebrow vogue. Hutchins himself teaches one class of prominent Chicagoans (known as "The Fat Men's Course"). There are 50,000 other people hashing the books over, too, from Chicago's swank Union League Club to the Detroit House of Correction and the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala...
...capital, weedy Little John Maragon never seemed to be getting anywhere. He was an anxious glad-hander of big men, a hanger-on at the White House, a willing errand-runner and a great fellow for cadging free rides in official trains and limousines. But he lived in a middlebrow house in the suburbs, moaned about the cost of groceries, and looked like a part-time shoe clerk. Most of the capital was inclined to agree when his fellow countryman, Greek-born Promoter William G. Helis, said...
...circ. 1,170,000) and Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,035,000), which turn out easily understood science news for their educated laymen, gadgets and shop hints for the young and the mechanically minded. But Science Illustrated's readers were more likely to shift to the recently revivified, upper-middlebrow Scientific American (circ...
...Budget Casting-As a straight storyteller and creator of character, Novelist Schmitt is often very competent, but on a high-mediocre level which suggests that, in trying to write a universal story to be universally read, she has tempered her imagination and intelligence to the shorn middlebrow. Under Biblical sanction, there are a lot of women with alerted breasts and, for the ladies' trade, some ten scenes in which a man is displayed "naked except for his loincloth." The characterization, generally perceptive, but never "difficult," is smooth and simplified enough to suggest A-budget movie casting. But Author Schmitt...