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Show "PROFESSIONAL LOWBROWS." The professional lowbrow is a man bent at all costs on preserving what ho regards as the masculine integrity of his character. He has a feeling that if ho yields once, nothing can save him. Let him enjoy "Tristan" with the other highbrows, or reflect upon the quality of his own soul, and before long he will be wearing a wrist watch, spats and a monocle, gazing , devotedly upon blue china and carry ing lilies as he strolls down Piccadilly. M His humor is too biting for such a H calamity How would he explain him-H self in a derby hat, or read George H Meredith on the train to Newark? B But as a matter of fact tho dellber-Bj ate lowbrow Is not "a rogular felloww. He wears a self-distorting pose HitBI, careful, artificial avoidance of subljRl lety and distinction is worlds awawl from the genuine naivete of simple I? people. The slang which is theS speech is his affection. Their wholfr hearted pleasures are to him a ritual of city life He uses shrewd intelligence intelli-gence to protect himself from complex com-plex ideas and careful descriralna-tions descriralna-tions He is at bottom a shirk, afraid of Intellectual difficulties, too timid P.1 not to be part of a crowd He Is the fa sycophant of democracy, Its fawnlnj. Jt flattering spiritual demagog. Tie ' New Republic t nn i |