Are you High Brow, or Low Brow (TIME Magazine 1949)

Started by Syt, May 22, 2020, 11:55:46 PM

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Syt

May 22, 2020, 11:55:46 PM


The original article:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Vk4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA98&redir_esc=y#v=twopage&q&f=false

I fear I'm in the lower segments with some aspirations upward. :(
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Oexmelin

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May 23, 2020, 12:45:22 AM
"The thing that burns up high-brows like me is that the dominant feature of our mental and spiritual life is the overwhelming flood of sewage that is manufactured especially for the tastes of the low-brows and lower middle-brows".  :lol:
Que le grand cric me croque !

Syt

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May 23, 2020, 12:51:57 AM
Quote from: Oexmelin on May 23, 2020, 12:45:22 AM
"The thing that burns up high-brows like me is that the dominant feature of our mental and spiritual life is the overwhelming flood of sewage that is manufactured especially for the tastes of the low-brows and lower middle-brows".  :lol:

Plus ça change ... :P
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Eddie Teach

#3
May 23, 2020, 01:09:56 AM
He would be really disgusted with modern times.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Josquius

#4
May 23, 2020, 03:25:23 AM
What is this "The Game" :hmm:
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Eddie Teach

#5
May 23, 2020, 03:30:46 AM
Looks like charades.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

celedhring

#6
May 23, 2020, 03:41:42 AM
I love that he included sculpture as an "every day taste"

The Larch

#7
May 23, 2020, 06:11:57 AM
Quote from: celedhring on May 23, 2020, 03:41:42 AM
I love that he included sculpture as an "every day taste"

And front yard sculpture as a possible option.  :lol:

Josquius

#8
May 23, 2020, 07:07:16 AM
I think there they're going less for normal people and more for new money. Who can indeed be rather gauche.
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The Brain

#9
May 23, 2020, 08:19:46 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 23, 2020, 03:25:23 AM
What is this "The Game" :hmm:

Are we looking at the same picture? Can't you see he's getting chicks like a mf?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

HisMajestyBOB

#10
May 23, 2020, 08:30:50 AM
I donate to Planned Parenthood. Does that make me Upper-Middle Brow? :)
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PDH

#11
May 23, 2020, 09:13:28 AM
At least I'm not unibrow.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Razgovory

#12
May 23, 2020, 10:18:18 AM
I don't have different outfits town and country.  Also, which of these outfits do people go to work in?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Sheilbh

#13
May 23, 2020, 11:00:23 AM
"Bach and before, Ives and after" is tremendous.
Let's bomb Russia!

The Brain

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May 23, 2020, 11:03:04 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 23, 2020, 10:18:18 AM
Also, which of these outfits do people go to work in?

We got a flatbrower!
Women want me. Men want to be with me.
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