Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courses: Hum 5, Phil 75 ("The Conflict of Ideals in Modern Civilization"), or a new half-course in the "great issues and problems" in philosophical thought. The new course, Firth said might emphasize critical analysis more than Phil 1 did; during the 30 years the course was taught by Raphael Demos, Phil 1 used the historical approach to ancient and modern philosophy...
...young Jewish twins, whose family had been exiled from imperial Russia, knew hardly any English when they went to their first American school, but Moses and Raphael Soyer were accomplished in another kind of language that quickly endeared them to their teachers. Whenever a holiday approached, they were set to work decorating the halls and classrooms, for no one else in the school could paint a livelier Easter rabbit, a jollier Santa Claus or a spookier Halloween witch than the Soyer boys. Today, at 62, the twins-as well as their younger brother Isaac-are noted artists whose quiet...
...Raphael is perhaps slightly better known, but last week Moses was in the spotlight...
...Literature, but he was much more interested in literature than in history, and was particularly passionate about fiction, both as a reader and a writer of it. Every year he took a course in short story writing. He studied under Howard Mumford Jones and Arthur M. Schleshinger, Jr., under Raphael Demos and John L. Finley. His grades were respectable: A's and B's, mostly B's, and just a sprinkling...
Common to all of them is long devotion to the goal set by that gentle needier, Raphael Demos, 70, holder of Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). The goal: to plumb "who we are, what we know, and how we know it." A Greek immigrant who worked his way through Harvard as janitor of the Lampoon building, Christian Platonist (The Philosophy of Plato) Demos roiled Cambridge with Socratic questioning for 45 years. The aim of education, he argued, after Socrates, is to become more human by learning...