Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popular lecturer, Santayana's courses became famed. His students included T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Walter Lippmann, Bronson Cutting, Felix Frankfurter. Robert Benchley attended his classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly considered snobbish. Disliking Boston society, he called it "a Harvard faculty meeting without any business." Although he enjoyed teaching, described it as "a delightful paternal art," he admitted disliking ''the taste of academic straw," was ironically amused when President Lowell declared that he was not interested in the degree...
These incidents footed up to a grand total of political dissatisfaction with the radio and its division of time, gave radio men a great pain. Pundit Walter Lippmann came to their defense, declaring, "Even if [broadcasting companies] are just they will not seem to be just. They will be accused of being unjust. They will never convince every one that they are just. The pie is too small and the boys are too hungry...
...books to be reviewed and commented upon are 20 in number, varying from Plato's "Dialogues" and Spinoza's "Ethics" to contemporary and recent works such as Royce's "Philosophy of Loyalty" and Lippmann's, "Preface to Morals." One of these is to be chosen by t he members of the course...
John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers; Joseph Turney, assistant to Joseph B. Eastman, Director of Railroads; L. D. H. Weld, research director of McCann-Erickson; Robert L. O'Brien '91, chairman of the Federal Tariff Commission and former editor of the Boston Herald-Traveler; and Walter Lippmann...
...Pundit Kent's column ("The Great Game of Politics") is carried by 115 newspapers, Pundit Lawrence's ("Today in Washington") by 131, Pundit Lippmann's ("Today & Tomorrow...