Word: santayana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Santayana, "The Last Puritan"; John Gunther, "Inside Europe"; Negley Farson, "The Way of the Transgressor"; Alexis Carrel, "Man the Unknown"; Anne Lindbergh, "North to the Orient"; Walter Duranty, "I Write as I Please"; P. G. Wodehouse, "The Bodkins...
...also much interested in philosophy, and studied under Santayana, Royce, Munsterburg, and Palmer during my two years' stay at Harvard. Of course I enjoyed all four extremely, but I cannot say that any one of them had an outstandingly great influence on my mind. I had intended to take a course under William James, but left college before this desire could be realized...
...shame to those who will falter long before reaching the end of the novel; but lucky are the few in whom its appearance alone may fan to a momentary flame long-smoldering sparks once kindled by the man, Santayana...
...compare with the many who, even as President Roosevelt, "sat at the feet" of the immortal Royce are the hosts who dog-trotted at the heels of George Santayana. ERNEST SCHEIN Chicago...
There is one bit of self-revelation in the last page of the book of which your review-did not take advantage that is needed to complete your picture of its author. In the epilog Mario is made to tell Santayana that, "The trouble with you philosophers is that you misunderstand your vocation. You ought to be poets, but you insist on laying down the law for the universe." And that, Santayana remarks earlier in the volume, is "simply the tragedy of the spirit when it's not content to understand but wishes to govern."... B. H. KIZER Graves...