Word: santayana
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Previous winners include George Santayana and Charles William Eliot...
Late in the fall of 1891 the Dickeys held their initiation. (Santayana refers to the Dickeys in his novel when he mentions the "secret society to which everybody of consequence be longed...
...drifting on a tide of trivia, self-deception, automatic, day-to-day actions that never reach any significant "level of intensity." Preoccupied with his seemingly orderly daily round, the average man loses touch with the supreme reality of death, according to Wilson, and with the sense of chaos that Santayana says is "perhaps at the bottom of everything...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 10:05 p.m., CBS). "The letters of George Santayana," discussed by Lionel Trilling, Perry Miller, Lyman Bryson...
...Monthly, with all its serious intent, seemed a permanent fixture at Harvard, and such writers as George Santayana and John Dos Passos were attracted to its ranks. Suddenly, however, in 1917, the Monthly was forced to declare bankruptcy, and its career was ended after over forty years of publication. Ironically, years later it was discovered that the magazine had a thousand dollars to its credit, but the last Monthly editor had long since graduated and no attempt was made to resurrect...