Word: middlebrows
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...Washington Post, is a self-appointed protector of Washington monuments past and to come-but he is engagingly unpredictable. He urged the Kennedy cultural center to copy the best features of New York's Lincoln Center. "The camp thing to do is to call Lincoln Center middlebrow or mediocre," he writes, "but I happen to thrill to noble proportions, a festive progression of spaces, and most of all perhaps to the kind of architecture which, like good writing, is so compelling that you don't even notice that it is good." Disagreeing with the editorial position...
...ambivalence and his constant concern with consensus, Sato is an irritating leader to the more Westernized of Japan's interi (intellectuals). Today, at 65, he is a ponderous speaker but a man of steadying weight in a nation ready to take off in many directions. He reads "middlebrow" samurai novels (the Japanese equivalent of westerns), and watches with benevolence the careers of his two sons, Ryutaro, 38, an oil-company executive, and Shinji, 34, who works for the Nippon Kokan steel company. To the looks of a Kabuki actor, Sato adds a very calculating eye for his own position...
...That TIME is middlebrow, trivial and superficial is well known to all thoughtful, serious men; but that it is ignorant and banal is a fact pushed to the fore in such pieces as the cliche-ridden double page on homosexuality. It takes TIME to make such spinsterlike judgments as the last sentence in the article...
...figures. It makes a splendid beginning. And even for the shrewdest caterers to popular taste, an act like Michelangelo's is hard to follow. What does follow in this solemn, princely spectacle -drawn by Director Carol Reed and Scenarist Philip Dunne from Irving Stone's low-to-middlebrow biography-shows every evidence of great effort, but the achievements are spotty...
Anti-eggheadry is at a new low. What with the new concern about education, scholars and writers-in-residence are often community heroes; professors get the celebrity treatment on TV. The much-derided middlebrow culture in a sense serves the intellectual because its members look up to him. The ordinary man, suggests Critic Leslie Fiedler, "can now identify with the intellectual...