Word: highbrow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people and make friends." With this handy advice from Pappa, I headed off from a small town in Mississippi to the wild and woolly world of collegiate schooling. Of course, Pappa and I had different conceptions of what Harvard College was all about. To me, Harvard was principally highbrow conversations, a way to impress people at cocktail parties, and, most of all, a ticket out of the boondocks, where strict Baptist morality posed considerable obstacles to my social education...
...literary than most of the other detective story writers . . ." Despite Wilson's judgment, Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey, her witty sleuth, have become two of the most beloved figures in detective fiction. An engaging mix of upper-class sang-froid and Sherlockian intellect, Wimsey set new standards in highbrow snooping. As viewers of the PBS series can testify, only Wimsey would drive a Daimler to the scene of the crime, sport a monocle, and dine out with marquesses and murderers...
...Paper Chase (Sept. 9, CBS, 8 p.m.). All summer CBS has been touting The Paper Chase as its classiest new program. One can see why. Well acted and produced, this series has a highbrow setting (a law school), a prestigious star (John Houseman) and harpsichord music on the soundtrack. As if all this were not proof enough of culture, the first episode contains not one but two 25? words: "contradistinction" and "propitious." PBS would kill to have a show like this...
Schwaighofer's faction has announced a boycott, which could deprive the play of skilled personnel. Both sides fear a decline in attendance, which totaled 530,000 in 1970. The traditionalists argue that the 1750 version is too highbrow and stylized. Schwaighofer's group, however, is concerned that Jews may organize an international boycott and other protests when the show goes...
...this convention--they make up five of the nine members of the Nevada delegation. Soon, it becomes apparent that this is representative of much of the convention--a gathering of family and friends active in this sort of thing since the Wallace crusade of 1968 and resentful of highbrow outsiders from the aborted Reagan campaign...