![]() ![]() We assumed that Barzun had been unable to complete either the survey or the questionnaire. First, we don't always know what we mean and are too lazy too find out. Why is this word so hard to find The reasons are many. We had recently sent out the 2012 usage surveys, and we had also sent Barzun a special questionnaire as part of a project to give selected panelists the opportunity to tell us more about their ideas and practices concerning language. Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers by Jacques Barzun 264 ratings, 3.87 average rating, 28 reviews Simple and Direct Quotes Showing 1-6 of 6 The French call mot juste the word that exactly fits. We were sad to hear of his death on October 25, 2012, at the age of 104. ![]() ![]() ![]() He continued to complete the surveys for the next several decades, through his nineties and, astonishingly, all the way into his 100s. When Barzun joined the panel, he was already in his late fifties. Material type: materialTypeLabel BookPublisher: New York : Quill, 2001Edition: 4th ed. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have been forgotten or obscured. He became a master of the English language and was a faithful filler-outer of our annual usage surveys. Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaissance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. Author of numerous books on Western intellectual and cultural history, most recently From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present, Barzun was born in France and came to the United States with his family at the age of twelve. The historian Jacques Barzun joined the American Heritage® Dictionary Usage Panel in 1964, the year it was formed. ![]()
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