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...George Santayana '86 (if it were not he, it should have been, or was it Henry James?) once compared the human mind to a furnished room. If either of those two men were alive today they undoubtedly would have added the presence of an expensive decorator. With that addendum firmly in mind (as well as in the room), what changes in decor and in vista do we notice with the passage of 25 years...
...requires total immersion in every aspect of the creation. Jones worked on the story with the writer, made all the important drawings himself, supervised the background painting, even collaborated on the sound effects and music. He habitually speaks of his characters as if they were people ("The Coyote fulfills Santayana's definition of a fanatic-someone who redoubles his efforts when he's forgotten his aim"). Moreover, he thinks of them as people who make ideal actors: they can achieve any facial expression or gesture the director desires, thus freeing him to create "pure cinema." Jones insists...
Died. Conrad Aiken, 84, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet; of a heart attack; in Savannah, Ga. A close friend and Harvard classmate of T.S. Eliot's, Aiken began publishing poems in 1914. Influenced by both Sigmund Freud and Harvard Philosopher George Santayana, Aiken searched in his poetry and prose for musical and psychological truth -an effort resulting in rich mental atmospheres but lacking in drama and force. Best known for his Selected Poems, for Ushant, a third-person autobiography, and for a number of short stories, notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Aiken published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction...
...Roxbury annex of the Boston Public Library. When he came back he told his brother, "I bought 30,000 books, and I bought the building, too." "Are you crazy?" said his brother. The building was the Fellows Athenaeum, where Edward Everett Hale was the first librarian. George Santayana lived next door to it and studied there. Mr. Starr used it as a warehouse until he got tired of patching up broken windows, and then he sold...
...those in a selfindulgently romantic mood, a visit to the rooms of Henry David Thoreau 1830 (Hollis 23) and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820 (Hollis 5) should deliver philosophic reinforcement. For more modern idealists, George Santayana's 1870 presence in Hollis 25 should invoke practical spiritual sustenance...