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...University dose not take any action to re-implement such basic, introductory survey courses, it will sadly justify its reputation as a university so out of touch with its own students that it fails to realize that they actually expect something for their $25,000. Charles Barzun...
...strip [conservatives] of voice." If indeed Mr. Lat can make intelligent arguments against the weak aspects of much of the liberal agenda, which he undoubtedly can because there are many of them, then I am confident that no one will be able to silence him with subtle innuendos. Charles Barzun...
...embarrass their creator: "He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into the Great Wasps' Nest of Life. As an image it stank." But all along he displays one talent that never flags -- he is able to convince the reader that the unreal is actually occurring. Critic Jacques Barzun once analyzed the technique of the effective horror novelist: "Since terror descriptions must perpetually make the reader accept yet question the strange amid the familiar, the writer pursues the muse of ambiguity. He begins by establishing a solid outer shell of comfort -- the clergyman's study, the lawyer's book...
Three years ago, Adler, director of the Chicago-based Institute for Philosophical Research, formed the Paideia Group, a panel of 22 educators and scholars who held a series of conferences seeking a new approach to public schooling. Among the participants: former Columbia University Provost Jacques Barzun, Bard College President Leon Botstein, Editor and Critic Clifton Fadiman...
...trouble to be born, nothing more. Apart from that, you're a rather common type. Whereas I--by God!--lost in the nameless crowd, I had to exert more strategy and skill merely to survive than has been spent for a hundred years in governing the Spanish Empire... (Barzun...