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Meanwhile the big Eliot line stifled the Puritan attack and has kept its end zone unsullied for the whole season to date. With Backs Hy Brodgen and Bill Garrett and Guard John Wolf benched by injuries from Tuesday's clash, the Navy team was excusing itself after the game, for not running up a bigger score...
...France's more delightful postwar fracases started last July, when gaunt, puritan Finance Minister René Pleven (a nonsmoker) refused to issue tobacco ration cards to women, implied that it was improper for them to smoke, anyway...
Cameron Forbes, football player. Harvard coach, farmer, financier and onetime Governor of the Philippines, was a model for Oliver, central character of Santayana's novel The Last Puritan. He wrote somber poetry, which he showed to Santayana; it was not well composed "but the thought was so original, so wise and so courageous, that nothing in Emerson has ever pleased me more." A grandson of Emerson, Forbes was like Santayana's other Boston friends whose lives illustrated the decline of the age of great merchants. "They were in one sense its ripe fruits, but in another sense they...
George Santayana, 81-year-old poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan), was awarded Columbia University's quinquennial Nicholas Murray Butler gold medal for his four metaphysical books, Realms of Being. The award will have to go to Rome where, since 1941, he has shunned war in a convent, finding that "in solitude it is possible to love mankind...
...should have rejoiced to make him appear a less disagreeable character, but, paradoxically, a Puritan conscience has prevented me. No British critic has succeeded in proving that I have tampered with any historical fact, or falsified either Milton's literary style or his point of view; and I trust that no American critic will, either. To have represented Milton as spouting beautiful poetry and doing beautiful deeds would have been a lie; throughout his life with Marie Powell he did not write a single memorable poem, or, so far as we know, perform a single generous deed. And nobody...