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Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television later in his career.
The set included an index similar to the Great Books' Syntopicon, along with reading plans of increasing difficulty.Hutchins wrote an introduction with a more informal tone than he used in The Great Conversation, his preface to the Great Books, and that chiefly explained the relevance of most of the categories making up the set: "The Imagination of Man" (about fiction and drama), "Man and ...
The Time Reading Program (TRP) was a book sales club run by Time–Life, the publisher of Time magazine, from 1962 through 1966. Time was known for its magazines, and nonfiction book series' published under the Time-Life imprint, while the TRP books were reprints of an eclectic set of literature, both classic and contemporary, as well as nonfiction works and topics in history.
Fantasia Mathematica [1] is an anthology published in 1958 containing stories, humor, poems, etc., all on mathematical topics, compiled by Clifton Fadiman. A companion volume was published as The Mathematical Magpie (1962). The volume contains writing by authors including Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, and Martin Gardner.
Clifton Fadiman wrote in his 1949 introduction to the book Masterpieces of World Literature, that no story better than The Man Without a Country expresses the spirit of American nationalism. [2] Hale published "The Man Without a Country" in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863 to bolster support for the Union in the North. [3]
Encouraging a 1-year-old to turn the pages while reading a bedtime story, asking a 2-year-old to point to the butterfly on the page over breakfast, or bringing a word book on the bus to share with ...
Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953) is an American essayist and reporter. Her interests include literary journalism , essays, memoir, and autobiography. [ 2 ] She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award.
Clifton Fadiman (b. 1904) was Sarah Mandelbaum Sidis's nephew, according to Amy Wallace's book about William James Sidis, so Boris Sidis was Fadiman's uncle, not his grandfather or his great-uncle. Boris and Sarah Sidis had two children, William James Sidis (b. 1898) and Helena (not Grace) Sidis (b. 1908).