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HISTORY OF EUROPE IN THE 19TH CENTURY-Benedetto Croce-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). Collected lectures of Italy's famed philosopher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Week | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Mrs. Joe Benedetto was not sorry to learn that the city block at 213th St. and Broadway which she leases and runs as a truck farm with her husband and nine children will be sold, thereby putting an end to the last farm on the island. Said she: "Things have not been very good for the farmer this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Farm | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

Because they are not his friends, Il Duce saw no reason for including among his "Immortals" the inventor of wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi; the foremost Italian philosopher, Benedetto Croce, or that orchidaceous but heroic poet-conqueror who stole Fiume for grateful Italy, Gabriele D'Annunzio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Immortals | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Most definitions of art are vague, inconclusive. Italian Philosopher Benedetto Croce murmurs abstrusely of "expression." Spanish Philosopher George Santayana distinguishes art as an extension of utilitarian practices into the realm where utility is forgotten and pleasure begins. Thus, a tribal dance pleading for the gift of rain is not art, whereas a ballet, tripped for its own sake, may be. In Manhattan, last week Sculptor George Gray Barnard defined art as the creations of those who possess the "Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Great Eye | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Most distinguished and revered among the 19 Senators who voted against the Amendment was Signer Benedetto Croce, aged but foremost living Italian philosopher-historian and philosopher. His speech, boldly remonstrating with Il Duce, did not pass the Fascist censor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Absolutely Absolute | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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