Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stringfellow_Barr> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 63 of
63
with 100 items per page.
- Stringfellow_Barr abstract "Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897, Suffolk, Virginia – February 3, 1982, Alexandria, Virginia) was an historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he, together with Scott Buchanan, instituted the Great Books curriculum.Barr was the editor of Virginia Quarterly Review from 1931–1937. He established and was president of the Foundation for World Government from 1948 to 1958. In the 1950s he taught classics at Rutgers College in Newark, New Jersey.Barr wrote compact yet lucid historical surveys of three major periods of western history. Two of his books, The Will of Zeus and The Mask of Jove deal with the Greeks and Romans, respectively. He also wrote The Pilgrimage of Western Man, dealing with western history from the Renaissance through the early post-World War II era.His nickname was "Winkie" .In a 1951 New York Post column, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. mocked Barr as belonging to the "solve-the-Russian-problem-by-giving-them-money school," and said, of him and two others, "None of these gentlemen is a Communist, but none of them objects very much to Communism. They are the Typhoid Marys of the left, bearing the germs of the infection even if not suffering obviously from the disease."In 1958, Barr said (ironically):Many observers here and abroad note a kind of higher illiteracy in our college graduates. But we like it that way. In our cars we like horsepower; in our studies we like slow-motion and low-gear. In education the intellectually second-rate does not shock us. To insist on the first-rate would be arrogant. Anyhow, if we are so second-rate, how come we are the richest nation in recorded history and the fattest people on earth?[citation needed]In 1959, Barr was one of a number of signatories to a petition asking the U. S. Congress to abolish the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. Other notable signatories included Eleanor Roosevelt and Reinhold Niebuhr.Barr wrote The Kitchen Garden Book (New York: Viking Press, 1956) with Stella Standard. The Kitchen Garden is a manual on growing and cooking common vegetables.New York Times reviewer Edmund Fuller called his 1958 novel, Purely Academic, "bitterly hilarious," "sadistically satirical," and "funny and appalling."".
- Stringfellow_Barr birthDate "1897-01-15".
- Stringfellow_Barr birthYear "1897".
- Stringfellow_Barr deathDate "1982-02-03".
- Stringfellow_Barr deathYear "1982".
- Stringfellow_Barr viafId "91246664".
- Stringfellow_Barr wikiPageExternalLink 0,9171,887097,00.html.
- Stringfellow_Barr wikiPageID "1018172".
- Stringfellow_Barr wikiPageRevisionID "589954758".
- Stringfellow_Barr dateOfBirth "1897-01-15".
- Stringfellow_Barr dateOfDeath "1982-02-03".
- Stringfellow_Barr hasPhotoCollection Stringfellow_Barr.
- Stringfellow_Barr name "Barr, Stringfellow".
- Stringfellow_Barr shortDescription "American writer".
- Stringfellow_Barr description "American writer".
- Stringfellow_Barr description "American writer".
- Stringfellow_Barr subject Category:1897_births.
- Stringfellow_Barr subject Category:1982_deaths.
- Stringfellow_Barr subject Category:20th-century_American_novelists.
- Stringfellow_Barr subject Category:American_historians.
- Stringfellow_Barr subject Category:Historians_of_the_United_States.
- Stringfellow_Barr subject Category:People_from_Alexandria,_Virginia.
- Stringfellow_Barr subject Category:Rutgers_University_faculty.
- Stringfellow_Barr subject Category:St._John's_College_(United_States)_faculty.
- Stringfellow_Barr type AmericanNovelists.
- Stringfellow_Barr type CausalAgent100007347.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Communicator109610660.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Historian110177150.
- Stringfellow_Barr type HistoriansOfTheUnitedStates.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Intellectual109621545.
- Stringfellow_Barr type LivingThing100004258.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Novelist110363573.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Object100002684.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Organism100004475.
- Stringfellow_Barr type PeopleFromAlexandria,Virginia.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Person100007846.
- Stringfellow_Barr type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Scholar110557854.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Whole100003553.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Writer110794014.
- Stringfellow_Barr type YagoLegalActor.
- Stringfellow_Barr type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Agent.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Person.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Person.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Q215627.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Q5.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Agent.
- Stringfellow_Barr type NaturalPerson.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Thing.
- Stringfellow_Barr type Person.
- Stringfellow_Barr comment "Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897, Suffolk, Virginia – February 3, 1982, Alexandria, Virginia) was an historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he, together with Scott Buchanan, instituted the Great Books curriculum.Barr was the editor of Virginia Quarterly Review from 1931–1937. He established and was president of the Foundation for World Government from 1948 to 1958.".
- Stringfellow_Barr label "Stringfellow Barr".
- Stringfellow_Barr sameAs m.03zq44.
- Stringfellow_Barr sameAs Q7624015.
- Stringfellow_Barr sameAs Q7624015.
- Stringfellow_Barr sameAs Stringfellow_Barr.
- Stringfellow_Barr wasDerivedFrom Stringfellow_Barr?oldid=589954758.
- Stringfellow_Barr givenName "Stringfellow".
- Stringfellow_Barr isPrimaryTopicOf Stringfellow_Barr.
- Stringfellow_Barr name "Barr, Stringfellow".
- Stringfellow_Barr name "Stringfellow Barr".
- Stringfellow_Barr surname "Barr".