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...changed over the half-century during which Russell has visited it. When Russell taught symbolic logic here in 1914, for instance he seemed to find his students a cloddish lot. (There were, as Russell wrote at the time, two exceptions however: one was a young Greek named Raphael Demos, the other a fellow called T.S. Eliot...
...more urging stringency than latitude on the Board of Preachers. There is room for discretion within the framework of principles. What we are urging is the right and duty of the Board to permit only such changes as are consistent with the ordinances and traditions of Memorial Church. Raphael Demos, Professor of Philosophy Donald C. Williams, Professor of Philosophy
Needle-mustached Salvador Dali raised his enameled walking stick and issued the judgment of a connoisseur. "It is the greatest painting since Raphael," he proclaimed. "As a matter of fact, it is very much like Raphael." He was referring to Santiago el Grande (Saint James the Great), a huge tribute in meticulously brushed oils to Spain's military patron saint. It was painted in five months by the artist that Salvador Dali calls the world's "great genius"-Salvador Dali...
...truth, rather than showing off one's cleverness. Finally, education should give a man the most rigorous methods and standards, thus ensuring that his inquiry is disciplined and effective. Great aims involve great risks; independence may turn into arrogance, glibness be mistaken for understanding, showmanship replace truthmanship. Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity
...Show "Truth." Blake's time, like the 20th century, was an age of rapid change, revolutions and large-scale wars. Much of his writing, too, has a peculiarly modern urgency. Yet the spirit of Blake's pictures is far indeed from modern art. He worshiped Raphael, pored over gothic sculpture and illuminations, spent seven years as an apprentice engraver, and recommended endless copying of nature as the only means to transcend it. "The bad artist seems to copy a great deal," he wrote. "The good one really does." Instead of the common modern view that painting ought...