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Updated: June 16, 2025
To give a sample of the intellectual level of the performance, here is what Billy has to say about modern thought: All this blasphemy against God and Jesus Christ, all this sneering, highbrow, rotten, loathesome, higher criticism, wriggling its dirty, filthy, stinking carcass out of a beer-mug in Leipzig or Heidelberg!
Usually he landed a buyer at the first shot. Of course you had to use tact and discrimination. Some you took to supper and to the naughty revues. Occasionally you found a highbrow one who preferred the opera. Had he not sat through Parsifal the week before? And nearly died! Some wanted to begin at Tod Sloan's bar and work their way up through Montmartre, ending with breakfast at the Pré Catalan.
"It begins to look like a tragedy," he admitted; "and yet if we treat it as a tragedy and it proves to be a joke, we'll feel like a comedy of errors." "Now, you're getting highbrow, Cub," was Hal's mock objection. "It's common sense, isn't it?" the youthful philosopher reasoned.
De roughnecks belongs on de Bowery, so dat's wot we'll call my dump down by de river. You're a highbrow, so youse gotta live on Riverside Drive, see?" and the mucker laughed at his little pleasantry. But the girl did not laugh with him. Instead she looked troubled. "Wouldn't you rather be a 'highbrow' too?" she asked, "and live up on Riverside Drive, right across the street from me?"
"Beautiful highbrow heroine," he went on, "has tearful parting with gallant hero more noted for his size than his beauty. He's gone a whole year. Heroine forgets him, marries another man. Now he comes back, heroine has to meet him and break the news that she is another's. Isn't it romantic?" Lillian looked at him steadily for a moment, as if she were debating some course of action.
Well, of course, I go to lots of these highbrow concerts, but I do like a good jazz orchestra, right up on its toes, with the fellow that plays the bass fiddle spinning it around and beating it up with the bow." "Oh, I know. I do love good dance music. I love to dance, don't you, Mr. Babbitt?" "Sure, you bet. Not that I'm very darn good at it, though." "Oh, I'm sure you are.
Honest, I finds him one noon with a whole tray of lunch gettin' cold, and him sittin' there with his brow furrowed up over one of them batty plays. "Must be some thrillin'," says I. "It's clever," says he; "but hanged if I know what it's all about! I must find out though I must!" He didn't need to state why. I could see him preparin' to swap highbrow chat with Miss Hampton.
He sat thinking of the cattle-boat as a home which he had loved but which he would never see again. He had to use force on himself to keep from hurrying back to Liverpool while there still was time to return on the same boat. No! He was going to "stick it out somehow, and get onto the hang of all this highbrow business." Then he said: "Oh, darn it all. I feel rotten. I wish I was dead!"
He had imagined that Holman Sommers, being a "highbrow," was a little, dried-up man with a bald head and weak eyes that made spectacles a part of his face; an insignificant little man well past middle life, with a gray beard, Starr saw him mentally. He should have known better than to let his imagination paint him a portrait of any man, in those ticklish times.
I have a notion you and he would make a good team." Lister wondered whether Vernon had an object for urging him to meet his friend, but this looked ridiculous. "What's Cartwright like?" he asked carelessly. "My notion is, Cartwright's unique. You imagine he's something of a highbrow Englishman, rather formal and polite, but he has an eye like a fish-hawk's and his orders go.
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