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...Herbert Read, this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, will give his first spring lecture, "The Idea as Human," tonight at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall. His talks will continue to be on the general theme of "Art and the Development of Human Consciousness...
...past three Norton lectures have been Thorton Wilder, Aaron Copeland, and E. E. Cummings...
America's Town Meeting (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC). "Flying Saucers: Fact or Illusion?" with Jonathan Norton Leonard, Major Donald Keyhoe...
...four volumes of the British Pelican History of Art, a 48-volume project. The other was Andre Malraux's The Voices of Silence, a brilliant if tantalizingly subjective musing on art through the ages. In a year when books on flying saucers and interplanetary travel became commonplace, Jonathan Norton Leonard brought the subject back to earth in his informed and sensible Flight into Space. For humor it was a sad, unsmiling period. Thurber Country, a book of characteristic sketches, was James Thurber at his second best, but standing alone in a shrinking field, it was more than ever welcome...
This year's Charles Eliot Norton professor was born in 1893, a Yorkshireman descended from generations of Yorkshiremen, all farmers. His whole outlook on life has been mellowed by these deep roots; they give him the innately cautious attitude of an English country gentleman. He is quiet, always calm, and reticent--modest to the point of shyness. A friend who has known him for thirty years claims Read is one man about whom no anecdote will ever be told...