Re: HB, JB

On Nov 30, 7:31 am, "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyþ@earthlink.net> wrote:
Bob Harper <bob.har...@xxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the following
letters to be typed innews:6-CdneOe7duCsc3anZ2dnUVZ_gudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx:





Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Nov 30, 7:50 am, Leo Wong <Mary....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and
unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral
integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or
soul and conduct -- magnimity, in short -- does occur; it is not a
myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us
the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by
its lower reaches.
-- Jacques Barzun, Preface to the 3rd edition of Berlioz and the
Romantic Century

Barzun was a lousy writer 60 or 70 years ago, and, if _compos mentis_,
still is. And had the gall to publish a style manual not long ago.

This comment goes right into the top echelon of silliest comments ever
made in this forum.

Jacques Barzun is 100 years old today.

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