Word: ortega
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the German universities, used to walk the stone terrace before the great Escorial palace proclaiming to himself: "I am I plus my circumstances." Looking up at granite reminders of bygone imperial glory and reflecting on the fresh memory of Spain's ignominious defeat in Cuba, José Ortega y Gasset decided that the circumstances of Spanish life demanded drastic overhaul. For 300 years, he wrote, Spain had been sinking into a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . Today we are not so much a people as a cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when...
...Revolt of the Masses. For the next 25 years José Ortega y Gasset, a small smoldering son of Socrates exuberantly engaged in the circumstances of Republican revolution, held sway over the liveliest minds of the Spanish-speaking world. Disagreeing sometimes with his great fellow philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, he was to be found in Madrid salons surrounded by poets and duchesses, fulminating at Iberian decadence till hostesses swept the whole lot out at dawn. To lead Spain out of its self-centered provincialism into fruitful communication with the rest of Europe, Ortega founded the most famous Spanish newspaper...
...individuality so tautly drawn between the twin Spanish columns of dignity and passion could never conform to the crude consequences of his own controverting eloquence. His victories defeated him. Three years before Hitler came to power, Ortega wrote a famous book with the prophetic title: The Revolt of the Masses. In the U.S., and in Europe as well, it was a Depression-time bestseller, whose striking Nietzschean phrases punctuated parlor talk and political arguments about whether, in the 20th century technological civilization, mass man tends to supplant the elite...
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 27, daughter of Spam's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, and Cristobal Martinez Bordin Ortega y Bascaran, Marques de Villaverde, 32: their third child, first son. Name: Francisco. Weight...
...created confidence in his mental health program almost completely by himself. A friendly rugged six footer with a trace of a West Virginia drawl, he has a background of knowledge and experience to accompany his personality, and a familiarity with books that allows him to indulge in quoting Dostoevsky, Ortega y Gasset, or Gordon Allport. He was termed a "brilliant" student at the Harvard. Medical School, from which he graduated in 1933, and his education continued in the Navy, on a South Pacific Hospital ship, and Bethesda during World War II where he learned the mental problems of young...