Tag Archives: Jacques Barzun

look-say method: progressive illiteracy

Student illiteracy? Could the source be the theories and practices of American education as they have luxuriated for the past 60 odd years. John Dewey took much of the blame for the deterioration of educational rigor, the emphasis on adjustment … Continue reading

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boys with bats

A wicket in the basket?  “If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt”.It is a bit self-righteous, but historian George Macaulay Trevelyan had a point that was bit … Continue reading

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playing chicken

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Perspectives, issue #3 Intercultural Publications (New York)/Hamish Hamilton Ltd. (London), 1953 Design: Paul Rand Art Director: Alvin Lustig A lit quarterly, Perspectives was the British/international version of Perspectives USA, … Continue reading

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starry starry night

Strange deformations attributable to tradition as it buckled and flared, gasping under the pressures of the pathologies of time.You can see the visible world as a vortex of lines. Or so said Vincent van Gogh. He used the collision of … Continue reading

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ABSURD ENIGMAS & STIGMAS:SPILLING THE GUTS WITH THE BEANS

It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn’t enough to change my heart Now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact … Continue reading

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