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Instead, his guests, with their families, were professors of literature, history, jurisprudence, and philosophy. It was long remembered in the university as the "high-brow" cruise. The professors, on their return, reported a most enjoyable time. Dick returned with a greater comprehension of the general fields of the particular professors than he could have gained in years at their class-lectures.
I remember I found you crying over the great renunciation one day." "Oh, I've passed that all up, Colonel. I'm strong for the pale high-brow business now. I'm doing time in all the night classes at Elizabeth House where I board, and you'll hardly know your little Rose pretty soon." "Fitting yourself for one of the learned professions?" "Scarcely.
"Did tha help to print it, or was it th' one tha sold i' th' streets?" "I wrote some of the stuff in it." "Wrote some of th' stuff in it? Wrote it thaself ? How could tha, a common chap like thee?" he asked, more excited still, his ferret eyes snapping. "I don't know how I did it," Tembarom answered, with increased cheer and interest in the situation. " It wasn't high-brow sort of work."
Why shouldn't I?" Her mother assumed this rhetorical question to be a genuine one and answered it accordingly. "Why, he doesn't seem at all like the type of young man who would be liked by a girl with your tastes and training. I shouldn't think you'd find him interesting or " Sylvia broke out: "Oh, you don't know how sick I get of being so everlastingly high-brow! What's the use of it?
Christina will go to the University and take all the gold medals, or whatever truck it is they get there, and she'll be a high-brow and go travelling over the country lecturing on Women's Rights!" "I do believe I'd do it, even the lecturing part, for the sake of the college course," she declared.
"Well, then, what are you going to make a standard?" asked Mr. Schwirtz, triumphantly. "Well " said Una. "Understan' me; I'm a high-brow myself some ways. I never could stand these cheap magazines. I'd stop the circulation of every last one of them; pass an act of Congress to make every voter read some A-1, high-class, intellectual stuff. I read Rev.
A doubter of our general divinity is labelled "high-brow" at once, and his doubts drop like water off the public's back. Any one who questions our triumphant progress is tabooed for a pedant. That will not alter the fact, I fear, that we are growing feverish, rushed, and complicated, and have multiplied conveniences to such an extent that we do nothing with them but scrape the surface of life.
Donnelle is a deep-dyed spy all right, but he's sure a high-brow. "You'd have to take an elevator to get up to him," I whispered to Pee-wee. "Shhh," Pee-wee said, "maybe he isn't dyed so very deep there's different shades of dyes." "Maybe he's only dyed a light gray or a pale blue," I said. Then Mr.
"I don't know much about society," Little Ann remarked, "I never saw any either up-town or down-town or in the country, but I shouldn't think you'd have to have a college education to write the things you see about it in the newspaper paragraphs." Tembarom grinned. "They're not real high-brow stuff, are they," he said. "'There was a brilliant gathering on Tuesday evening at the house of Mr.
I spoke of this. "'True burlesque is, after all, the highest criticism, don't you think? he asked me. 'Doesn't it make demands which only a sophisticated audience can meet-isn't it rather high-brow criticism? And I saw that he had thought deeply about his art. "'It is because of this, he went on, 'that we must resort to so much of the merely slap-stick stuff in our comedies.
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