tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post9080407867150292169..comments2024-03-25T19:00:40.046-06:00Comments on The Constructive Curmudgeon: Barzun!Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08766692378954258034noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-69151943374886957242012-08-05T16:23:14.588-06:002012-08-05T16:23:14.588-06:00Janice, when I read you say that you use FDTD as a...Janice, when I read you say that you use FDTD as a high school text, I gasped, then swallowed very hard. Where do they make teenagers who can read and think at that level? That said, I think that the top track kids in a magnet school, or an elite private school like Atlanta's Westminster School, could benefit from reading 2-3 essays by Barzun, as examples of lucid and carefully crafted contemporary prose.RDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05120095550637873753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-81655997624455688482012-08-05T15:07:30.385-06:002012-08-05T15:07:30.385-06:00As a former high-school English teacher, as well a...As a former high-school English teacher, as well as the editor of the Jacques Barzun page on our website , I would very much like to learn more about Janice's use of Barzun's three books---especially the 'Use and Abuse of Art, for which we gave him a retroactive Aristos Award . (Click on "Annotated List of Winners," then search for "mellon"---without the quotation marks.) For my e-mail address, click on "About Aristos" on the journal's home page.<br /><br />Louis Torres, Co-Editor, Aristos (An Online Review of the Arts)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-75713572379258791382012-07-23T22:17:54.838-06:002012-07-23T22:17:54.838-06:00Love Barzun. I use From Dawn to Decadence as a mai...Love Barzun. I use From Dawn to Decadence as a main text in a high school omnibus class. His Use and Abuse of Art and Simple and Direct also have things I use. Very perspective man.Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08549061444948600179noreply@blogger.com