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PHAEDRA AND FIGARO (213 pp.)-Translated by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
Translating classics is a little like skywriting. The effort is high-flown, and the blurs are dramatically visible. Remarkably blurless are two new translations: one, a tragedy, Racine's Phaedra, done by Robert Lowell; the other, a comedy, Beaumarchais' Figaro's Marriage, by Jacques Barzun. Coming after Robert Fitzgerald's superior modern rendering of The Odyssey (TIME, April 14), they suggest a boomlet in good translations...
...other sophomores, Roger Barzun and John Kennedy, led the varsity to a 7-2 win in the sabre division with two victories each...
Pink Puppets. Columbia University Dean Jacques Barzun extends the point...
...HOUSE OF INTELLECT, by Jacques Barzun. An uneven but provocative attack on mass culture and mass education, in the name of old-fashioned discipline and logic...