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Columbia University Professor Jacques Barzun is an earnest and erudite man who inclines with all his heart toward the second view. The result of his fervent admiration is a two-volume study, Berlioz and the Romantic Century (Little, Brown; $12.50), the most careful, comprehensive biography of a composer and his period since Ernest Newman's monumental four-volume Life of Richard Wagner...
...funeral, recounts Historian Barzun, "the pair of mourning-coach steeds, black and tame as Paris undertakers themselves, suddenly seized the bit in their teeth, plowed through the brass band in front of them, and brought Berlioz alone within the gates...
...students into flashing arguments (he once reduced Mortimer Adler, now an eminent University of Chicago professor and an important-books man himself, to tears). He urged them on to "nobler loves and nobler cares." As the course grew, younger teachers-Poet Mark Van Doren, Philosopher Irwin Edman, Historian Jacques Barzun, Critic Lionel Trilling and Philosopher Mortimer Adler -came to help...
Psychologist Charles thinks it is high time U.S. writers changed their tune. To get them off on the right track, he offers the testimony of Historian Jacques Barzun (who does his teaching at Columbia): "[Teachers] look like any other Americans; they are no more round-shouldered than bank presidents, they play golf . . . they marry and beget children, laugh and swear and have appendicitis in a thoroughly normal way. They are far less absent-minded than waiters in restaurants...
...Carman of Columbia College,* Columbia University was a very odd sort of dean. He was a baggily dressed man with a Yankee twang and white hair that always seemed ruffled. He called distinguished visitors "you dear folks," said "peoples" when he meant "people"; and his eminent colleague, Historian Jacques Barzun, he insisted on calling Jake...