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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straining their eyes to catch a glint of the truth behind the mists that swirl about the human mind. Any lingering doubt as to the brightness of the so called "dark ages" in the minds of his hearers was completely, dispelled. As Professor Gilson often points out it is only possible to paste this label on the centuries following the fall of Rome if intellectual activity is confused with philosophical speculation...
However those who had any contact with him often felt that Professor Gilson's choice of field was a comparatively unimportant accident. As is so often the case with a great personality what he taught about Aquinas or Abelard, interesting though it was, acted merely as a bridge from his mind to those of his listeners. With communication once established first papers for citizenship in the super national, super temporal country of cultivated minds were quickly passed across. Yet, though Professor Gilson fought against Germany without a trace of hate, his type of mental distinction is very French. Only...
...went the splashers. They sucked food through' rubber tubes. They listened to the cheerings of their followers. The red flares of surrender were going up often now. Few were left to flay their ways through the black water. Only two of the men-George Young, 17-year-old Canadian, and huge Norman Ross of Chicago-still faced the mainland. Between 3 and 4 miles from shore Swimmer Ross sighed finis and groped for the gunwale of his boat. That left George Young alone, and he succeeded. After 15 hrs., 44 min., 33 sec., he reached Point Vinvente, Calif., losing...
...masticable thought and sharp aphorism; that civilization's aim is "to think like an angel but to function like a man"; that sexuality is either splendid or ugly, never funny or pretty, and that a man must contemplate the body of a woman closely and often if he is to preserve an image of their love; that an old waiter's face is finer than that of the average bishop ("It's a question of faithful service") ; that Washington is the "Tibet of democracy"; that understanding, humility and fortitude are the only virtues ("to be kind when...
...vexed if it is true that they have "the acme of wealth and no illumination." But Author Burt has already revealed similar truths about New York in The Interpreter's House (1924). Having renounced Philadelphia with all other cities, soon after his graduation from Princeton (1904), Author Burt often visits cities, knows them thoroughly; but his Wyoming ranch has been his home. There he has produced, besides beef and horses, short stories and poetry of high literary merit and quiet wisdom. Lately he bought an estate in South Carolina but it was to the Tetons of Wyoming that...