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Well, no century is entirely decadent in which a thinker, writer and teacher such as Jacques Barzun could appear -- and flourish.
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Well, no century is entirely decadent in which a thinker, writer and teacher such as Jacques Barzun could appear -- and flourish.
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In addition to Oates and Roth, the people receiving the National Humanities Medals are: Daniel Aaron, the scholar and a founder of the Library of America, who as a Harvard graduate assistant graded the papers of John F. Kennedy and Norman Mailer; Bernard Bailyn, the historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for history twice and in 1998 gave the Jefferson Lecture, the nation's prestigious humanities lecture; and Jacques Barzun, historian and cultural critic.
White House to honor 19 with National Humanities Medal and National Medal for the Arts
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In an effort to weigh these competing views of the city, then and now—ghost town or bustling, if overheated, metropolis—I contacted Kenneth T. Jackson , the Jacques Barzun professor of history at Columbia University and a former president of the New York Historical Society.
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Jacques Barzun's " Columbia University's ROTC Shame " op-ed March 10 on that exact point is heartwarming.
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Also honored, but not able to be at the ceremony, were Daniel Aaron, the founding president of the Library of America and cultural historian Jacques Barzun.
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Chosen for the humanities medals are Daniel Aaron, founding president of the Library of America; Bernard Bailyn, award-winning historian; Jacques Barzun, historian and cultural critic; poet and environmentalist Wendell E.
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Jacques Barzun, the French-born, American cultural historian, once wrote that "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball."
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Columbia, guided by luminaries like John Erskine, Mark Van Doren and Jacques Barzun, established a core curriculum shortly after World War I based upon the "great books" of Western Civilization.
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Jacques Barzun, the French-born, American cultural historian, once wrote that "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball."
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