Word: santayana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santayana evidently shared Adams' belief, for after 23 years of the scholarly life in Cambridge, he withdrew from the world to his convent in Rome
...When Santayana was first appointed to a teaching position at Harvard, the eminent historian Henry Adams cautioned him: "I tried to teach history there, but I couldn't. You can't teach anything there...
...Monthly Santayana's main contribution was in the form of verse, most of it sonnets. In the main they were of a vaguely romantic nature, as epitomized by the following sonnet...
Perry Miller, professor of American Literature, was probably the last man from Harvard University to speak to the late philosopher, George Santayana...
...September, 1950, Miller interviewed Santayana for some two hours in the philosopher's tiny room overlooking a garden in his Roman convent. "I had the feeling," Miller recalled, "that I was in the presence of one of the great minds of our time. But I just couldn't like...