Word: gasset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modern Spanish-American Literature," taught by Raimundo Lida, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, is one of the three new Spanish courses for 1959-60. The Department will also offer "The Enlightenment in Hispanic Literature," with emphasis on Feijoo, Cadalse, and Jovellano; and readings in "Unamuno and Ortega Y Gasset." A seminar on readings in Galdos, which was dropped from the catalogue in 1956, has been reinstated...
...yarns in Hindustani now," the genial professor smiles. In fact, volumes of his "yarns," the name which Sorokin fondly attaches to his theories, together with translations and commentaries upon them, occupy almost all of the space on the shelves. Sorokin picks up a new work by Ortega y Gasset, which he has been asked to review, and he suggests that perhaps the Spanish social thinker may have "borrowed" some of his ideas, though y Gasset doesn't acknowledge any influence. "I'm very widely read in Spain," he notes, a quizzical smile accompanying the revelation. This suggestion that many sociologists...
...young man, Fernando Gerassi, like a number of Spanish intellectuals including Ortega y Gasset, went to Germany to study philosophy. "I wanted to find out the meaning of life," Gerassi recalls. After studying with such men as Heidegger and Husserl he was disappointed, "I didn't find anything but speculations." To conquer his disappointment he went to Munich to study art history with the great art historian Wolflin. When it came time for him to submit a thesis, Gerassi fooled them again. "I decided to become a painter," he says, "and Wolflin really liked painting so he encouraged...
...hour walk before breakfast and surprises the Riviera crowd by never setting foot in the local bistros. For the past three years, Kazantzakis has been a front-running candidate for the Nobel Prize. Like Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello, a past Nobel winner, and Spanish Philosopher Ortega y Gasset, he is far from the operatic Mediterranean type; with them, he shares a dry, winy brilliance of mind. Under the harsh sun of Crete, neither brooding Teutonic mysticisms nor romantic self-deceptions can survive. The pages of a Kazantzakis novel reveal the secret of ancient Greek greatness-a ruthless and abiding taste...
Died. José Ortega y Gasset, 73, famed Spanish philosopher (The Revolt of the Masses), essayist and journalist; of cancer; in Madrid (see FOREIGN NEWS...