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...Master of Kirkland House; John Coolidge '35, director of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum; Philip Hofer, free, white and '21, Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts in the College Library; Governor John A. Volpe; Msgr. Francis J. Lally, editor of the Pilot, organ of the archdiocese; Jacques Barzun; Gov. Elliot Richardson '41; and the CRIMSON's long shot, Dr. Roy Orval Greep, Dean of the School of Dental Medicine. Dean Greep will receive a D.D.S...
...something done. Socrates wasn't trying to free slaves, help the poor, or even get federal aid to education. He tried to find out how people ought to live, how a good community is organized." The "operators" are active in universities too. Says Columbia's Jacques Barzun: "Professors keep giving advice all over the world, getting ideas on the run, dropping them here and there-they are nothing but airport thinkers. In a certain sense, our best politicians today are our best intellectuals; they have not been unionized or homogenized." A great many other intellectuals, particularly the younger...
Bloch volunteered that Jacques Barzun's criticism of scientists for irresponsibility does not trouble him. "Science is a glorious entertainment in the best sense--all scientists are doing is amusing themselves, but in non-frivolous way," Bloch said. "This may sound irresponsible, but at least it's honest...
Running Rebuttals. Although Schechner states his case with an almost belligerent finality, he is not at all averse to inviting an adversary to write a rebuttal that he runs directly after his own piece. The result, says Historian Jacques Barzun, "takes the theater out of the realm of mere grease paint and glamor and into that of ideas and feeling. Aeschylus and Shaw would applaud...
...spite of his breathless baroque style, Barzun adds nothing new to the literature of dismay. As is often the case with prophets of doom, Barzun overlooks the fact that much of what he finds unpleasant today has always existed, and cannot be blamed on Freud, Darwin, science, literacy, or even advertising...