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Conversation (Sat. 8p.m., NBC). Good talk, with Jacques Barzun, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Dr. Glyn Daniel, Clifton Fadiman...
...native of Boston, Mr. Poto studied conducting under Koussevitsky, Leon Barzun, and Stanley Chappel. Before joining the Boston Conservatory is played clarinet in the Boston Symphony for three seasons...
Flaubert's "Dictionary of Accepted Ideas" contains many of the author's observations of the superficial and Inane thought in the nineteenth century. Samples are printed below: (Translated by Jacques Barzun; New Directions...
...part of Author Barzun's common sense that he recognizes U.S. business and businessmen as civilizing factors in a democratic economy. And he is bold enough to say bluntly: "To this day, a European nobleman or shopkeeper will stoop to doing things for money which an American would starve rather than do." U.S table manners he declares to be the best in the world, baseball the greatest national game, and the U.S. political system the greatest guarantee of democracy...
...Barzun's dislikes range from the standardization of U.S. life to the hero worship of scientists. He thinks the post-office service is terrible and Hollywood movies an abomination. He cannot abide quiz programs, and he would like to see oldfashioned, full-length hand brakes returned to cars. His harshest words are reserved for New York City as a place to live and work. He hates its noise and dirt; he condemns its schools, its houses, its transportation. In fact, says Author Barzun, "we would settle for Hell as our next stopping place: living conditions could be no worse...