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I think the ref. to "middlebrow" may be incorrect; Virginia Woolf used the term extensively in an essay written in the 1930's...the answer may (or may not, I haven't checked) be in "The Making of Middlebrow Culture." by Joan Shelley Rubin. ...
On April 12, 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Highbrow for a record of the discussion. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:10, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What is the relevance of the picture of Melanchthon? His name does not occur in the text, neither does Durer's. JackofOz 06:09, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
"it consists of people who are hoping that some day they will get used to the stuff..." The barely literate phrase "it consists of people" and the revealing post-modern usage of "stuff" seem to betray an American public education rather than Punch in 1925 being quoted in OED. My OED is the Shorter, however: can someone verify the authenticity of this "quote"?-- Wetman 21:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
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Finding this sentence incomprehensible (and thus unverifiable), Archelon has moved it here:
Archelon 12:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
According to the message board post linked by one of the two items in the References section, the book referred to in the other one makes an assertion about the origin of the word 'middlebrow' which is entirely incorrect (to wit, that it was coined by Life magazine in the 1940s). The reliability of this book may not be sufficient. Archelon 17:43, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
To "Highbrow, Middlebrow, and Lowbrow", perhaps? Archelon 11:26, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
highbrow, high-brow, n. and a.
[Back-formation from HIGH-BROWED a. 2.]
A. n. A person of superior intellectual attainments or interests: occas. with derisive implication of conscious superiority to ordinary human standards.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a highbrow; intellectually superior.
So highbrowish a., fairly, or extremely, highbrow; highbrowism, the condition of being highbrow, intellectual superiority.
high-browed, a.
1. Having a lofty forehead.
2. = HIGHBROW a. orig. U.S.
Archelon
14:15, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
To add to the above, and at least for now correct what the main article says, the earliest use of the term, according to OED, is 1884, not 1875. I'd not cite anything earlier than 1884 unless contradiction to OED can be proven.
dlester@boisestate.edu 132.178.155.77 ( talk) 18:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand why this is too broad of a topic for Wiktionary to cover. (I know I just concurred with the above three-part merger, implying that I consider this encyclopedic. However, that was for similar reasons: This article is too darn short to stay here by itself.) -- Jesdisciple ( talk) 19:41, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
According to the wiki page--
"The term was popularized in 1902 by Will Irvin, a New York Sun reporter who adhered to the phrenological notion of more intelligent people having high foreheads.[5]"
However, the new york sun's wiki page states that the publication was started in 2002. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.118.147.224 ( talk) 13:27, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
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I think the ref. to "middlebrow" may be incorrect; Virginia Woolf used the term extensively in an essay written in the 1930's...the answer may (or may not, I haven't checked) be in "The Making of Middlebrow Culture." by Joan Shelley Rubin. ...
On April 12, 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Highbrow for a record of the discussion. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:10, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What is the relevance of the picture of Melanchthon? His name does not occur in the text, neither does Durer's. JackofOz 06:09, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
"it consists of people who are hoping that some day they will get used to the stuff..." The barely literate phrase "it consists of people" and the revealing post-modern usage of "stuff" seem to betray an American public education rather than Punch in 1925 being quoted in OED. My OED is the Shorter, however: can someone verify the authenticity of this "quote"?-- Wetman 21:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
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Finding this sentence incomprehensible (and thus unverifiable), Archelon has moved it here:
Archelon 12:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
According to the message board post linked by one of the two items in the References section, the book referred to in the other one makes an assertion about the origin of the word 'middlebrow' which is entirely incorrect (to wit, that it was coined by Life magazine in the 1940s). The reliability of this book may not be sufficient. Archelon 17:43, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
To "Highbrow, Middlebrow, and Lowbrow", perhaps? Archelon 11:26, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
highbrow, high-brow, n. and a.
[Back-formation from HIGH-BROWED a. 2.]
A. n. A person of superior intellectual attainments or interests: occas. with derisive implication of conscious superiority to ordinary human standards.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a highbrow; intellectually superior.
So highbrowish a., fairly, or extremely, highbrow; highbrowism, the condition of being highbrow, intellectual superiority.
high-browed, a.
1. Having a lofty forehead.
2. = HIGHBROW a. orig. U.S.
Archelon
14:15, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
To add to the above, and at least for now correct what the main article says, the earliest use of the term, according to OED, is 1884, not 1875. I'd not cite anything earlier than 1884 unless contradiction to OED can be proven.
dlester@boisestate.edu 132.178.155.77 ( talk) 18:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand why this is too broad of a topic for Wiktionary to cover. (I know I just concurred with the above three-part merger, implying that I consider this encyclopedic. However, that was for similar reasons: This article is too darn short to stay here by itself.) -- Jesdisciple ( talk) 19:41, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
According to the wiki page--
"The term was popularized in 1902 by Will Irvin, a New York Sun reporter who adhered to the phrenological notion of more intelligent people having high foreheads.[5]"
However, the new york sun's wiki page states that the publication was started in 2002. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.118.147.224 ( talk) 13:27, 20 September 2010 (UTC)