Word: santayana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips was a graduate student from Nebraska. He had come to study philosophy under Harvard's "greats"-Santayana, Josiah Royee, William James-and he started the book shelf merely to help cover his expenses. It was a success, and in two years was bringing him $1000 beyond his living expenses. Phillips neglected his graduate studies-he didn't receive his Master's degree until 1928-and moved to a store...
Seniors today face several blocks to achieving that inner peace, he added, such as "the massive materialism of our country. . . . George Santayana paid us the compliment of saying that if he looked into the heart of a man and did not find kindness there he would know he was not an American. But our yard-sticks are patterned to measure things rather than ideas...
...peppering his book with cracks about . . . his literary betters, including Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and George Santayana," only time (lower case) can tell how right he is. I dare your book editor to reread any of Lewis' or Faulkner's books of the early '30s in comparison with Arnndel, The Lively Lady or Captain Caution and repeat his claim that they are Roberts' betters. Perhaps Santayana might...
...whose standards are Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and George Santayana, Roberts' "literary betters...
...next three Roberts historicals until he made the bestseller grade with Northwest Passage. Thinking back over the long upgrade, Roberts peppers his book with envious cracks about other people's bestsellers and jabs at his literary betters, including Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and George Santayana. Once, peeved because he never got the Pulitzer Prize, he teed off on the selection committee in an ill-tempered article for the Satevepost, took solace from his No. 1 position in a poll of reviewers who thought Northwest Passage deserved the prize in 1938. He decided never again to let a book...