...Alan K. Manchester Teacher in America . By Barzun Jacques . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1945 . Pp. vi , 321 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Book Reviews 455 element from these systems is extracted, the further question can be asked, whether...

...Robert F. Durden God’s Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words . By Barzun Jacques . Boston : Little Brown and Company , 1954 . Pp. 344 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 147 God s Country and Mine...

.... By Jacques Barzun. Boston: Little Brown and Com­ pany, 1954. Pp. 344. $5.00. Born in France, Jacques Barzun came to the United States after World War I, graduated from Columbia College in 1927, and became an Ameri­ can citizen in 1933. His earlier book, Darwin, Marx, Wagner-. Critique of a Heritage, and his...

... Steinberg, because it is more enlightening on social and ecomonic matters. William B. Hamilton. Teacher in America. By Jacques Barzun. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Pp. vi, 321. $3.00. In his opening sentence the author insists that Education is indeed the dullest of subjects. A discussion...

... be compared with it is Jacques Barzun s The Teacher in America, which comes at the problem from a different angle. It is articulate, penetrating, liter­ ate. It applies to the teacher whether he works on the secondary school, the college, or the professional school level, and it is as valuable for the teacher...

... on teaching that this reviewer, who for twenty years has been trying to teach students how to teach, has ever seen. And it comes, not from a professor of Higher Education, but from a biologist in a medical school. The only volume that can be compared with it is Jacques Barzun s The Teacher in America, which...

... is a kind of death. Darrel Abel. AN ADVOCATE OF ROMANTICISM Romanticism and the Modern Ego. By Jacques Barzun. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Pp. 359. $2.75. A vigorous controversialist, Professor Barzun would redress the bal­ ance in behalf of romanticism...

... Professor Barzun, there is Quality here. Alan K. Manchester. Literary Study and the Scholarly Profession. By Hardin Craig. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1944. Pp. xvi, 150. $2.25. This book is made up of ten lectures delivered at the University of Washington on the Walker-Ames foundation when...

... the longest fifteen years in modern history, is the one volume of Herman Pinnow, but it had better be left on the shelf beside Steinberg, because it is more enlightening on social and ecomonic matters. William B. Hamilton. Teacher in America. By Jacques Barzun. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Pp. vi...

... abstraction of a human being has an essentially dehumanizing and leveling effect. Jacques Barzun has acutely memorialized the fate of an individual as a statistic. Numbered, grouped together without choice, stripped of differences not relevant to some tem­ porary purpose, the individual . . . becomes in fact...

... perhaps be labeled as the inhumanities. That alas! is not a facetious remark. It fairly represents the attitude of many humanists such as Jacques Barzun, to name only one as evidence that I am not inventing. (By humanist I here mean one who pursues the academic subjects called humanities; the word...

...,"Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 34 (1970): 1-7. 4 All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women s Studies, ed. Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith (New York, 1982). 5 Jacques Barzun, A Stroll with William James (New York, 1983), 128...

... nettlesome. A reader, whether or not he heard the arguments in the first place, can dispute away at home against Allen Tate s view of Faust draining a swamp or Jacques Barzun s belittlement of Descartes. Sometimes the talkers tend to split hairs or they have forgotten to make the basic approach...

.... See Nation (20 April 1946): 474. Jacques Barzun called Mumford s attack on liberalism an unconsciously trumped-up affair. See Saturday Review of Litera­ ture (27 April 1946): 10. 22. Mumford, The New Leader (25 January 1941): 5. 23. Valuesfor Survival, 101. 24. Mumford, German Apologetics...

.... Good Housekeeping noted that hillbilly music was leaving the hills for an urban audience. Nations Business ran an article titled Country Music Goes to Town. Even the august Jacques Barzun felt compelled to 27. George O. Carney, Country Music and the Radio: A Geographic Assessment, Rocky Mountain...

... late in the decade, could not authoritatively construe. A society so muted in the expression of its antinomies, so restricted in the repertory of its publicly debated ideas, so limited in the allo­ cation of its allegiances redefined the word controversial to mean, as Jacques Barzun pointed out...

..., so limited in the allo­ cation of its allegiances redefined the word controversial to mean, as Jacques Barzun pointed out in 1959, something (or someone) about which we cannot afford to engage in controversy virtually the opposite of the former meaning. The scrutiny of ideas was in disrepute...

... was first used and identified as a focus of study and indictment in Magnus Hirschfeld,Racism , trans. Eden Paul (London: Victor Gollancz, 1938), originally published in German in 1934. Also noteworthy during this period are Jacques Barzun, Race: A Study in Superstition 174...

... nature of reinforced concrete became better under­ stood, its use evolved from the early imitations of wooden or steel post-and-beam construction to vaults and flat, monolithic slabs. 1 Jacques Barzun, The Architect and the Aspirations of His Day, Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture (New York...