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• middlebrow — mid|dle|brow [ˈmıdlbrau] adj middlebrow books, television programmes etc are of fairly good quality but are not very difficult to understand →↑highbrow, lowbrow ↑lowbrow …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• middlebrow — mid|dle|brow [ mıdl,brau ] adjective middlebrow books, television programs, and other forms of entertainment are those that most people like and understand, and are less simple than lowbrow ones and more simple than highbrow ones a. used about… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• middlebrow — adjective middlebrow books, television programmes etc are not very difficult to understand compare highbrow, lowbrow …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• middlebrow — UK [ˈmɪd(ə)lˌbraʊ] / US adjective a) middlebrow books, television programmes, and other forms of entertainment are those that most people like and understand, and are less simple than lowbrow ones and more simple than highbrow ones b) used about… …   English dictionary

• middlebrow — 1911 (adj.), 1912 (n.), from MIDDLE (Cf. middle) + BROW (Cf. brow) (Cf. HIGHBROW (Cf. highbrow), LOWBROW (Cf. lowbrow)). [T]here is an alarmingly wide chasm, I might almost say a vacuum, between the high brow, who considers reading either as a… …   Etymology dictionary

• Middlebrow — The term middlebrow describes both a certain type of easily accessible art, often literature, as well as the population that uses art to acquire culture and class that is usually unattainable. First used by the British satire magazine Punch in… …   Wikipedia

• Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …   Universalium

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• Ruth Moore — (1903 1989) was an important Maine author of the twentieth century. She is best known for her honest portrayals of Maine people and evocative descriptions of the state. Now primarily thought of as a regional writer, Moore was a significant… …   Wikipedia

• Highbrow — Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, highbrow is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and… …   Wikipedia

• Margaret Widdemer — (September 30, 1884 – July 14, 1978) was a U.S. poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise, sharing the prize with Carl Sandburg, who… …   Wikipedia