Word: middlebrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That the salad goes down well with the American middlebrow was proved once again last week by a retrospective show of Lucioni's work in Manhattan. Visitors admired the tight, slick portraits and painstaking still lifes with which Lucioni occupies his winter months, lingered longer before his summer landscapes-stage sets for perfect vacations. Like stage sets, they are actually airless and flat, lacking both the deep perspectives of Renaissance art and the sunny sparkle of the impressionists. But all the details are there, down cold, as if under glass. It takes only a little imagination for the viewer...
...transition has been made easy by the fact that the highbrow journals themselves are becoming increasingly conventional in their stories. Thus, the distance between high and middlebrow is gradually shortening, and the two are merging to form a dubious amalgam : the muddy-brow...
...Christ Church in Oxford, thus predicted the public reaction to his series of eight 40-minute lectures over the BBC's uncompromisingly highbrow Third Program. Last week, as the series ended, Canon Demant had made such a hit that the BBC was planning to put him on its middlebrow Home Service next fall...
British Author Nevil Shute is a natural-born storyteller with a gift for inventing probable incident and for creating authentic background. Six fast, easy-to-read books (notably The Chequer Board, 1947, and No Highway, 1948) have established him as a middlebrow Graham Greene, an honest trader who sells his reader a story without an ideological headache in it. With his new book, however, Author Shute trifles with reportage and comes a cropper. Traveling in Sumatra in 1949, Shute was the house guest of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. Geysel-Vonck. His hostess had been one of a party of about...
...West'chester County bedroom for Manhattan, suburban Scarsdale (pop. 14,500) is fiercely jealous of its upper-middlebrow status. Its streets curve and are often called lanes; it scorns the row house. Even the ugliest of its houses have what real-estate agents like to call "character...