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...programs shone again last Sunday. After seven weeks off the air, CBS's Invitation to Learning (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) returned at a new time, 11:30 a.m. to 12 E.S.T., with discussion of the second most popular books in the world (Don Quixote). The talkers Mark Van Doren, John Peale Bishop and Jacques Barzan, examined the mad knight of Cervantes as an archetype of all high-minded but ill-informed reformers, found a recent treatment of the same subject in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. They agreed, however, that Cervantes' Man-in-the-Street. Sancho Panza, learned...
Invitation to Learning's new series of 32 programs was planned on a slightly different basis from its previous 67. Of the three regulars who made up the old team, Mark Van Doren, who is both keen and engaging, alone remains regular. The other two, Allen Tate and Huntington Cairns, are to make occasional appearances. CBS's notion is to vary Mr. Van Doren's companions for the sake of a less foreseeable meeting of minds...
...burlesque theater next door shed their clothes before an almost empty house, Juntoists crammed into the Academy of Music for their inaugural mass meeting. They were greeted by Mr. Lewis, University of Pennsylvania's President Thomas S. Gates, School Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard and Franklin Biographer Carl Van Doren...
...many a worried Southerner Ellen Glasgow's realism makes her seem like a revolutionist. She is more of a belated Victorian with a full Victorian concern with moral problems. Last year she told Irita Van Doren: "I would lead the revolution myself if I were sure I'd get the right heads on my pike." The heads that Ellen Glasgow would hoist would please few revolutionists. No group is without them and no group has a monopoly of them. Ellen Glasgow has been thrusting at them since she started writing. They are called intolerance, injustice, inhumanity...
Classicists Cairns, Tate and Van Doren earnestly tried to enliven their performance with modern applications of the classics. Quite without sparkle, their program plodded at a pedestrian classroom pace. Nonetheless, to the amazement of one & all, by last week it had attained an estimated audience of 1,000,000. Half a dozen publishers began to sell cheap editions of the classics hand over fist, 4,000 libraries found the books in such demand that they dug them out of dusty stacks, put them on special shelves...