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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. CLIFTON FADIMAN, 95, impassioned essayist and critic dedicated to making intellectual works accessible; on Sanibel Island, Fla. Fadiman judged Book-of-the-Month Club selections for 50 years; moderated the '30s and '40s radio show Information Please; and edited more than 20 anthologies, including his beloved The World Treasury of Children's Literature. (See Eulogy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 5, 1999 | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...feel lucky having spent 17 years in the company of CLIFTON ("Kip") FADIMAN at the Book-of-the-Month Club, learning from him how to read. Bearing witness to his reports--he wrote one on every book he read for the club--and his discussions at the monthly meeting of the judges was like taking the world's best creative writing course. He was a humane critic, seldom unkind, with few foibles. (I once did hear him say, "Faulkner makes me giggle.") The books he loved most were those that bore two Fadiman standards: lucidity and a mind at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: CLIFTON (Kip) FADIMAN | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...Jeopardy!, but most shows have daters or honeymooners lewdly embarrassing each other. The mud wrestling is only verbal, but it's still a tiny step from Jerry Springer--and a long way from the stellar font of quiz shows, radio's Information, Please (1938-48), hosted by Clifton Fadiman and featuring the mordant wits Fred Allen and Oscar Levant. Back then folks tuned in to meet people cleverer than they were, not more deranged; and intelligence was an attribute to flaunt, not hide like an appendix scar. Today's game shows might take their cue from another '40s radio favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parties for Smarties | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Others said that Muldoon and Fadiman represented the academic environment that Harvard provides its students...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Exercises Honor Phi Beta Kappa Seniors | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

Muldoon and Fadiman were also honorarily inducted...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Exercises Honor Phi Beta Kappa Seniors | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

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