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Historian Jacques Barzun of Columbia University is one professor who does not mind getting from his window cleaner a note like this: "The windows have been cleaned Wed. 12:30 p.m. Your maid was their to veryfey the statement." That sort of thing, says Barzun in the Atlantic Monthly, may be bad writing, but it is nevertheless harmless. The real danger to language "does not come from such trifles. It comes rather from the college-bred millions who . . . circulate the prevailing mixture of jargon, cant, vogue words, and loose syntax that passes for prose." Barzun calls this "the infinite duplication...
...erotic side of George Gordon, Lord Byron, that it has almost forgotten that he was, after all, a rock of strength as well-allowing for a few streaks of soft shale in the composition. The Selected Letters of Lord Byron, published this week with an introduction by Jacques Barzun, shows almost more intimately than the poems the vigorous male grain of the most varied and masterful English spirit of the Romantic...
...founder and angel of the avant-garde book publishing house, New Directions. Laughlin will be publisher and straw boss of Perspectives, but "to avoid any taint of cultism," each issue will have a different editor. Such critics and writers as Lionel Trilling, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Jacques Barzun, Harry Levin and Mortimer Adler have already agreed to sit in. The foundation is setting aside $500,000 for Perspectives for the first three years, will print 30,000 copies of its first issue...
...screen. Each line of print is revealed jump by jump at increasing speeds. At the beginning of the course the speed was 190 words per minute. By the 19th day the speed had risen to 600 words per minute. The subjects of the films ranged from "Napoleon" and "Barzun on Hokum" to "The Ituri Pygmies...
This sort of criticism, says Smith, does not come from any single source. It comes partly from such prominent educators as "Robert M. Hutchins, Bernard Iddings Bell, Jacques Barzun, Mark Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, and the Harvard Committee-all nonfascist sources ... It comes from school people themselves, most of them humble teachers in the field . . . and it comes from thousands of parents who want to cooperate with the schools but are rebuffed by superprofessional educators when they have the temerity to question theory . . ." To prove his point, Mortimer Smith had a few exhibits of his own-letters he received after...