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GEORGE SANTAYANA was one of the three immensely old wise men of the West, though his influence in philosophy and affairs could not be compared to that of his fellows and contemporaries, Benedetto Croce or Bertrand Russell. He never played their part in public life: as a man and a philosopher he was one of nature's exiles. Taken by his Spanish father at the age of eight from the mournful and austere town of Avila in Spain and set down among American relations in the intellectual Boston of 1872. Santayana became an American by his education at Harvard...
...Among the honorary chairmen: Philosophers Benedetto Croce, Jacques Maritain, Bertrand Russell and John Dewey...
...Vatican has long conceded that the popular printing press can outrun any censor's pencil. Since 1900 the church has banned only 255 books, most of them theological works. (Best-known contemporaries on the Index: Philosopher Benedetto Croce, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.) Responsibility has been shifted to local bishops and, in the last analysis, to the individual to decide whether a particular book can injure the reader's faith. Explains a Vatican book censor: "People have different spiritual allergies...
BENEDETTO CROCE, 85, Italian philosopher, who eats no meat...
...technicalities, the decorations that Hemingstein the writer holds, and the only ones that he respects, are the Medaglia d'Argento al Valore Militare and three Croce al Merita di Guerra...