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Word: middlebrows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Budget Casting-As a straight storyteller and creator of character, Novelist Schmitt is often very competent, but on a high-mediocre level which suggests that, in trying to write a universal story to be universally read, she has tempered her imagination and intelligence to the shorn middlebrow. Under Biblical sanction, there are a lot of women with alerted breasts and, for the ladies' trade, some ten scenes in which a man is displayed "naked except for his loincloth." The characterization, generally perceptive, but never "difficult," is smooth and simplified enough to suggest A-budget movie casting. But Author Schmitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psalmist Psychologized | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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