Word: middlebrows
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...Hollingsworth) Whyte Jr., an assistant managing editor of FORTUNE, is the latest and perhaps the most thoughtful writer to be thus concerned. His "Organization Man" is the man with the rotary hoe-the suburbanite who is doing well in technological America. Whyte wonders who slanted his skull into a middlebrow conformation and worries that the light may be blown out within his brain...
...came back with a roar. With high fidelity's new recording techniques, hazy diapasons became vivid, and when the hi-fi crowd learned that the organ could play both lower and higher than any other instrument, it became their all-out favorite. The boom began with sub-middlebrow theater-organ concoctions, e.g., a series of LPs by Organist Reginald Foort, on the Cook label, continued with a series by George Wright, put out by newly formed High Fidelity Recordings, Inc. On the serious side there are Columbia's fast-selling church-organ recordings with E. Power Biggs...
...Even the middlebrow part of the catalogue is pretty dressy when a soprano of the stature of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf stars in Johann Strauss' Fledermaus...
...land of blood, sweat and beers. It fought long and fiercely to win complete independence from Spain; it amassed huge wealth by energetic trading at home and around the world, and like the U.S. today it developed a dominant middle class with a uniquely high standard of living. Unlike middlebrow Americans, the Dutch in their golden age prized paintings highly enough to buy them. In some towns, professional painters outnumbered the butchers. Perhaps a score of the artists achieved greatness; the works of a handful rivaled and vastly enriched the art of the ages...
Such paintings, with their fusion of lush color and pixilated charm, have beguiled thousands who do not pretend to understand them (if they are understandable), have put Chagall reproductions over many a middlebrow mantelpiece, and won their 64-year-old creator a place alongside such accepted modern French masters as Picasso, Matisse and Braque. "I am for order," he explains, "but if one wants order, the painting must have the air of disorder...