Word: middlebrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...presenting his usual weekly wrestling programs, proudly announced plans to bring an impressive roster of Metropolitan Opera stars to Philadelphia next season for opera performances. In his long career, 59-year-old Promoter Fabiani has also treated Philadelphians to professional tennis tournaments, midget auto racing, ice revues, plus such middlebrow musical fare as Mantovani's lush strings. With profits from these enterprises, he has given Philadelphia a new opera company, the Lyric, lured big-name singers with fat fees ($6.500 per recital for Tebaldi...
...lies, for Lawyer-Hero Arthur Winner, "that majestic calm of reason designed to curb all passions." On publication, critics almost unanimously praised the book-and some wildly overpraised. Now a small reaction has set in, led by Dwight Macdonald, who in Commentary denounced Cozzens as a tool of the "Middlebrow Counter-Revolution.'' With much justice, Critic Macdonald ridicules the involved Cozzens style. With far less justice, he maintains-in a dubious bit of critical mind reading-that Hero Winner is not really the character Cozzens had meant to create; he is a prig, where Cozzens wanted to create...
TIME rings the bell again with its fine sense of connotation in "Mood Menace" [Aug. 12]. A pox on all pretentious, middlebrow music, not good enough to be good and not honest enough to be vulgarly...
Using the same circulation system and editorial approach, Methodist-sponsored Together will probably pass a million by its first anniversary in October. As indicated by the growth of such other middlebrow religious magazines as the monthly Catholic Digest (circ. 884,820) and the weekly Lutheran (176,100), the U.S. religious press has at last learned to treat subscribers as readers first, churchgoers second. Said Together Publisher Clark: "We feel we are reaching some of the marginal millions on the periphery of church interest...