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Goodbye, Snobbery. In the new America, Conant argues, art, literature and history cannot be sold in the schools on the oldtime snob appeal. But smart teachers will have no trouble peddling their substance in the form of handy guides to how the U.S. got the way it is ("Curiosity is more widely distributed than innate love of literature"). While imparting this kind of general education, Conant says, schoolteachers must keep an eye out for "gifted" boys & girls. Conant thinks that students with special aptitudes for mathematics and languages can be spotted in high school, almost as early as those with...
TIME'S Sept. 6 press story on Nation's Heritage . . . states that "Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal." Absolutely untrue. Heritage will be one of publishing flossier flops if it cannot achieve its vitally important purpose-"to convey in a dramatic, graphic way a greater knowledge of all the things that have made and make our nation; to give a picture of the heritage that belongs to all Americans in a manner that will have an appeal to most Americans-through the medium of pictures, art and color...
...copies and a cover painting (printed on linen) by the late Grant Wood. Its readers won't have to do much reading: the magazine will be nine-tenths pictures. It will also be adless (Malcolm's idea, reluctantly approved by B.C.). Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal-it is designed to look impressive on boardroom tables-but figures that many a businessman will want to buy it as a gift (with his name as donor on the inside cover) for his local library. "Heavy antique stock," the prospectus brags, "will give the magazine its fine library...
...Title for Everybody. By teatime on opening day, the artists had drifted away and the gallery had begun to fill up with John's rich and fashionable friends. "Augustus is no snob," one of his more feline cronies once remarked. "He'd like everybody to have a title." Queen Elizabeth had had a private showing two days earlier (her wartime sittings for John were interrupted by a German bomb; she is reported to think that she has taken on a bit too much weight to have the portrait continued...
Parkman was a puritan with a romantic streak, a social snob, a mentally and physically sick man who exalted the strenuous life and cracked under it. The Journals, which cover trips to New England, Canada, Florida, the Northwest and Europe, are as remarkable for what Parkman missed as they are for the precocious talent with which he described what interested him. He was only 17 when he made his first entries, but he had already decided to become an historian. At 23 he made his tour of the Oregon Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book...