Word: gilson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This autumn French newspapers and educators bitterly complained about the bac and the old-fashioned competitive system it stands for. First set up in 1808, the exams have long been attacked by progressives as a "savage rite of French bourgeois snobbism." Philosopher-Scholar Etienne Gilson coupled the bac with alcoholism as the "twin scourges of the French people." Novelist René Barjavel complained in the weekly Carrefour, "[the bachot] is just a slip of paper proving that its owner has a minimum of general knowledge...
...order to obtain the ultra-sophistication required of a high fashion model, the judges had each entrant parade with a book upon her head. It was Gilson's "The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy...
...Dinner. Today, at 65, white-haired, stooped and serene, Jacques Maritain shares with his countryman Etienne Gilson the place of honor among living Roman Catholic philosophers. Since 1945 Maritain has served as France's ambassador to the Vatican, giving no official dinners, roaming through other people's parties lost in thought, and devoting most of his time to Rome's Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Maritain is largely responsible for the upsurge of interest in the philosophic system of the 13th Century's "Angelic Doctor." Last week Princeton University appointed Maritain professor of philosophy...
...University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Gilson Colby Engel protested that many stomach cancer deaths are unnecessary. X rays and the gastroscope can detect all but 8% of early cancers, said he, but neither patients nor doctors understand the need for such examinations. The average stomach cancer victim does not consult a doctor until 15 to 16 months after his symptoms begin. Anyone who begins to feel weak and tired, to lose his appetite for meat and to have indigestion before or after eating would do well to be examined at once for stomach cancer...
...Here Gilson waved his pudgy, deprecating hands. "I'm no theologian, but I dare to put this proposition before you theologians. ... I propose to you that we return to the idea of Saint Thomas, whereby all essence is merged in 'the Supreme Being,' God, who is God primarily because He exists and draws all essence from the fact that He exists...