Word: rougemont
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Swiss Philosopher de Rougemont's ambitious thesis is that Europe and the Western Hemisphere owe their desperate plight to their over-susceptibility to passionate love. Ancient Greeks and Romans, says he, regarded love as a mental aberration, an unqualified misfortune; Orientals so regard it today. Only in the Western world has it taken a hold in the mores, been accorded respect. Taking Tristan and Iseult as the archetypes of passion, he hangs on their necks more weight than Freud ever hung on Oedipus...
Printed note headings for the various dormitories, done up in neat new packages of 100 sheets each, 22 cents. The stock of fine writing papers is now ready. Rougemont's La France is ready. Also Perry's Reformation of England. College songs, 37 cents. Members will find their orders for music filled promptly at low rates. The store will be closed from Friday noon, Nov. 5, to the next Tuesday morning...