Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark's family shuttled between a sprawling 18th century farmhouse on 150 acres in Cornwall, Conn, and a house on Greenwich Village's Bleecker Street, where an evening's conversation struck sparks from a roomful of such guests as Carl, Mortimer Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Critic Joseph Wood...
Frank's bookshelves bulge with a special set of 64 volumes by authors with the same patronymic: Van Doren. Brother Carl, who died in 1950, started the set in 1911 with a scholarly biography of British Novelist and Poet Thomas Love Peacock. Five years later, while still a graduate...
Possibly people who like to read should concentrate in physics. Possibly they should read Lewis Mumford or Edmund Sinnott about whom they are not asked to have opinions, or Vardis Fisher of whom nobody has ever heard, or Norman Mailer, about whom nobody gives a damn. But most of all...
C.S. Lewis is an Oxford and Cambridge don who has long been an apostle to the well-educated agnostic. To scoop unbelievers out of the waters of doubt into the net of faith, Anglican Lewis uses all sorts of urbane literary lures ranging from Platonic debate (The Screwtape Letters) through...
Author Lewis point seems to be that divinity can only address humanity in opaque hints and fragmentary revelations, since a mortal mind is no more capable of comprehending the divine plan than an infant is of understanding Shakespeare. Lewis advances this argument less through his stiff allegorical characters than through...