Word: middlebrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playboy, like the studs it celebrates, seems ever in its prime. Hugh Hefner's middlebrow melange of sex, pop sociology and fiction now sells nearly 7,000,000 copies a month, and sets new records for advertising revenue with almost every issue. This summer it spawned a German-language edition that is selling well...
...Wilbur, is as unassuming as its title would suggest. It sets forth a series of little mishaps, a quartet of marriages that have, however slightly, gone awry. Its characters are middle age and middle class. But in intention and effect the play itself is something more than middlebrow...
...than Parker Brothers. But all the divertissements rest upon a single process -the breakup of phenomena into categories. It has been so ever since Auguste Comte invented the "science" and divided human progress into three stages, theological, metaphysical and positive. In recent times, the games people played included Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow, U and non-U, Soul and no Soul. Now comes the first new pop-soc. parlor game of the '70s-Consciousness...
...Middlebrow Raid. The Kenyon changed direction in the '60s. Under Novelist Robie Macauley, chosen by Ransom to succeed him as editor, it paid more attention to fiction and broad essays on contemporary culture. Macauley may have been right to de-emphasize criticism. The nation's new crop of critics were more scholastic and often imitative. But the lure of little literary journals meant nothing to the new writers of the decade, who could find big money and broader fame in relatively large-circulation magazines like Esquire, Harper's and Atlantic. As Macauley, now fiction editor of Playboy...
Kevin J. Middlebrook '72, one of the organizers, said that the minimum objective is to give national publicity to the issues of tear gases and defoliants. The maximum objective, Middlebrow said, is to convince the Senate to attach a rider to the Protocol stating that according to the latest U. S. interpretation, tear gases and defoliants are encompassed by the Protocol...