Cultured Person by John Simon

This is about what qualifies an individual as a cultured person. It is perforce so from my particular point of view; from someone else's, it may well differ. According to Bryan Garner's important "Garner's Modern English Usage," a cultured person has a "cultivated mind, well trained and highly developed." But just who is that? Here are my views and touchstones, to borrow Matthew Arnold's term.To begin with, we m…

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