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Elizabeth, proud fan of Moss "Middlebrow" Hart said ...
Practice before you preach Roger Sutton 2005
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In a 2006 "Middlebrow," Bryan Curtis took a snowmobile out for a spin ...
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Bryan Curtis, a contributing writer, writes the "Middlebrow" column.
Slate Magazine 2008
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In a 2006 "Middlebrow," Bryan Curtis took a snowmobile out for a spin ...
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'Middlebrow' American culture which can't Appreciate & Move On?
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But Holtby understood the necessity of conveying progressive ideas to the widest possible readership, of the kind that Woolf scorned in her essay "The Middlebrow".
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Middlebrow gloom shows up in Hollywood, where recent films tell a similar story.
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Perhaps Hope College professor W.A. Pannapacker put it best in his essay "Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor":
Lauren Bailey: Sheepskin and the Herd: Why Passive Student Consumption of Higher Ed Is Destroying Critical Thought Lauren Bailey 2010
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Perhaps Hope College professor W.A. Pannapacker put it best in his essay "Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor":
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TRANSLATION: (Middlebrow Bureaucratese) "I am either an exceedingly ignorant, untruthful or misleading Director, because there is no evidence at all that this situation is 'isolated and unusual' (indeed, the evidence points to the opposite), and because the court 'decision' was not made by the court at all, but rather by medical doctors who work for the US Secretary of Health and Human Services," otherwise known as Dr. Gerberding's boss.
David Kirby: The Vaccine-Autism Story: Trust Your Government, or Be a Patriot and Get on Google 2008
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