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...going to live 150 years." He speaks French, German, Italian and Spanish, has lived in Yucatan and Rome, Hong Kong and New Haven. He has sat at the feet of Gertrude Stein, stood by the sickbed of Sigmund Freud, acted as interpreter for Ortega y Gasset, hiked down the Rhone with Gene Tunney, hobnobbed with a Chicago gunman named Golfbag...
...generation of philosophers, Santayana did not appear to be dealing with philosophical questions, and indeed there are no Spanish philosophers and never have been. But there have been a number of distinguished essayists, unsystematic, highly individual intermediaries between personal agony and philosophy: writers like Unamuno and, later, Ortega y Gasset. To this group of brilliant egoists Santayana really belongs. His real excellence lay in literature. He was a good minor poet of the severe kind, and understood, quite well, that he had been torn away in childhood from the sources of passion which feed great poetry. He was an admired...
Devotion & Cold Eyes. Writing on a fellowship granted by Catholic Publisher Bruce, Biographer Gary MacEóin (pronounced MacOwen) hammers away determinedly at the contention of such scholars as Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and Princeton Professor Américo Castro that Cervantes was a free-thinking man of the Renaissance who included devout passages in his work only because the cold eye of the Inquisition was on him. To prove his case, he offers dozens of devout quotations from Cervantes' works, and adds that since "not a single line [was] erased by [Inquisition censors] during...
Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset had started something, it seemed, when he descibed the evolution of painting as a steady march from external reality through the subjective to the "intrasubjective" (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week, twelve U.S. modernists had picked up Ortega's word, opened an "intrasubjective" show in Manhattan...
...Nothing's Too Good for Grandpa" . . . highlights again the significance of Jose Ortega y Gasset's verdict that the world "is suffering from a 'vertical invasion' of the masses; it has been taken over by the commonplace mind" [TIME...