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Conversation (Thurs. 8:30p.m., NBC). The Death of the Private Life, discussed by Bennett Cerf, Jacques Barzun, Clifton Fadiman...
Conversation (Thurs. 9 :30 p.m., NBC). The Egghead and I, discussed by Jacques Barzun, Max Lerner, Clifton Fadiman...
Conversation (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). People I'd Like to Have Known discussed by Jacques Barzun, J. B. Priestley, Clifton Fadiman...
...most intimate friends have met his wife, the former Mariana Lowell of Boston, or been inside his book-filled apartment in Manhattan's East 80s, or met his nine-year-old daughter Isabel, or two sons, James 16, and Roger 14. A prodigious reader and prolific writer, Barzun has seen fit to arrange his routine with an almost classic precision. But this is something of a paradox, for Barzun's chief interest as a cultural historian has been not classicism, but romanticism...
...William James that he found the pluralistic philosophy that has guided him all his life. To James, says Barzun, "something is true, not because it has been repeated often, not because someone in authority has said it ... not because it has been deduced from an infallible generality; but because it leads as accurately as possible to the kind of result that we have in mind." But there was another aspect to James, the romantic pragmatist, that Barzun also adopted as his own. "Real culture," said the philosopher, "lives by sympathies and admiration, not by dislikes and disdains...