Word: high-brow
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...exponent of the school of hard-boiled irony, white hope of intelligentsiacs who pride themselves on not being softies, has built himself into that rare phenomenon of a popular author who is spoken well of by the critics. His last novel, A Farewell to Arms, received both Hollywood and high-brow huzzas. His latest book, not aimed at so wide an audience, may alienate many of his new disciples, but it is a genuinely Hemingway production. Death in the Afternoon is all about bullfighting: a complete, compendious, appreciative guide. If you have never seen a bullfight Death in the Afternoon...
Like a proud, fussy host, President Robert Maynard ("Bob'') Hutchins of the University of Chicago settled a batch of students in his new "College" last autumn (TIME, Sept. 21). Ever since, the College has much resembled a high-brow houseparty. You work as you go, study or roister as you please, plan to get a College certificate in two years or so, then do specialized work in one of the ''Divisions." Last week Host Hutchins gave his guests a try at a new, exciting party game: Examinations. The new Board of Examinations, after lengthy studies, issued a set of questions?...
...racketeer-businessman is seduced from his comfortable wife by his unattractive but spiritual secretary, wishes when it is too late that he had not fallen for that high-brow stuff...
...confidante. Deftly Miss Nelson demotes Aurelia's husband to an out-of-town office, adroitly she arranges dinner for the Greeleys at Mr. Cooper's home. There a fellow guest asks Mrs. Greeley whether she prefers Bach to Stravinsky. Her coy retort, "Isn't he the high-brow cutup, though?" echoes into ghastly silence. That night she admits to her husband that his rapid rise has not been...
...four acts the entire drama of the struggle for expression through the written word is told. The present players do not rise to the play's heights, perhaps, but, on the other hand, they do not seek to make of the play a high-brow holiday...