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...German universities, used to walk the stone terrace before the great Escorial palace proclaiming to himself: "I am I plus my circumstances." Looking up at granite reminders of bygone imperial glory and reflecting on the fresh memory of Spain's ignominious defeat in Cuba, José Ortega y Gasset decided that the circumstances of Spanish life demanded drastic overhaul. For 300 years, he wrote, Spain had been sinking into a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . Today we are not so much a people as a cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when a great...
...Revolt of the Masses. For the next 25 years José Ortega y Gasset, a small smoldering son of Socrates exuberantly engaged in the circumstances of Republican revolution, held sway over the liveliest minds of the Spanish-speaking world. Disagreeing sometimes with his great fellow philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, he was to be found in Madrid salons surrounded by poets and duchesses, fulminating at Iberian decadence till hostesses swept the whole lot out at dawn. To lead Spain out of its self-centered provincialism into fruitful communication with the rest of Europe, Ortega founded the most famous Spanish newspaper...
...mental health program almost completely by himself. A friendly rugged six footer with a trace of a West Virginia drawl, he has a background of knowledge and experience to accompany his personality, and a familiarity with books that allows him to indulge in quoting Dostoevsky, Ortega y Gasset, or Gordon Allport. He was termed a "brilliant" student at the Harvard. Medical School, from which he graduated in 1933, and his education continued in the Navy, on a South Pacific Hospital ship, and Bethesda during World War II where he learned the mental problems of young men under the worst forms...
Miguel de Unamuno, a brilliant man with flashing eyes who wrote novels, plays and poems, was long considered, with Ortega y Gasset, Spain's most influential philosopher. In 1901 he became rector of the nation's oldest university, and under him, Salamanca began to recapture some of the glory it had known in the days of Students Cervantes, Cortes and Ignatius of Loyola. This year, when Salamanca began laying plans to celebrate its 700th anniversary, it naturally included a solemn tribute to its great rector...
...cultural deterioration [TIME, Jan. 19]. The Common Man is becoming all too "common" in both senses of the word. If education does not return to its basic function of "leading out" the Uncommon Man from the mass of anonymous mediocrity, we shall soon be complaining with Ortega y Gasset of the ausenda de los mejores [literally, the absence of the better ones...