Word: santayana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ralph Barton perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, will discuss Santayana at 6:15 p.m. tonight over WGHB in a program called "Faculty Reports." began talking about Bertrand Russell. Alluding to Russell's second marriage, Santayana said that "In a man like 'Berty,' his passions are principles, and his principles are--well--passions...
Speaking of his days at Harvard, Santayana confessed that he hated President Eliot, and loved President Lowell--"a gentleman, a man of deep understanding." But Eliot was, for Santayana, the symbol of everything he loathed; he was "The Last Puritan," the figure of stubborn, stupid morality...
Miller was quite impressed with the philosopher's complete self-objectivity. When Santayana referred to his near blindness, he spoke as if his eyes were nothing more than "a typewriter on the desk or a chair in the corner of the room." This absence of any real egotism, this lack of self pity, permeates his whole philosophy: for, Miller said, "at the very heart of his philosophy is a tremendous detachment...
Miller recounted an incident that occurred when Edmund Wilson wrote a profile on Santayana for "The New Yorker." In the article, Wilson refers to his "parchment skin and black eyes." Miller described Santayana's complexion as cherubic, and his eyes as an intense brown. "Poor reporting," the philosopher muttered to Miller...
Miller concluded: "It's a curious thing. I've been reading Santayana for 34 years. I think that people who get Santayana in their system never...