Word: santayana
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...With Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, and Santayana stands a man whom future generations probably will pronounce no whit their inferior..."; "like Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Schleicrmacher, he gathers up the strands of all that is best in secular thought, and unites them with the truths of God's self-disclosure"; "he has my vote for possessing one of the most enormous brains in the world"; these statements--the first two by editors Charles Kegley and Robert Bretall and the third by the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University--all refer to Paul Johannes Tillich, Protestant theologian...
...Letters of George Santayana, edited by Daniel Cory. The late great philosopher in informal but brilliant asides on himself, God, man and (among other things) the goodness of jazz (TIME...
...polished publication entitled Mondays at Nine or Pedagogues On Parade. Paul Brooks '32 and T. Graydon Upton '31 contributed a great deal of consistently fine and funny light verse. Carl E. Pickhardt's '31 caricatures of famous professors of that era--Barret Wendell, Charles T. Copeland, Irving Babbit, George Santayana, and G. L. Kittredge--are excellent drawings in the style of Sir Max Beerbohm. Part of the verse that accompanies the caricature of Kittredge follows...
Bird in Puritan Cage. In the main, Santayana bit his tongue and bided his time until his savings and a bequest made him modestly independent. In 1912, at the age of 47, he set off to live in Europe for the rest of his life. Escaped from his Puritan cage, Santayana had released himself not only for flitting from London to Paris to Florence to Venice to Rome but for strenuous mental flights in the bulk of his 30-odd works. The delight of the letters is that Santayana is always ready to stray off the course of his philosophic...
...Must Stop Scrawling." Himself the monitor of a philosophic flux-materialism, rationalism, idealism, skepticism-Santayana reveals in the letters not the direction but the drive behind his thinking. To him, philosophy seems to have been a kind of verbal finger painting. As the nuns of the Little Company of Mary padded about him during the last decade of his life, he drew an appealing sketch of old age which also sums up much of his carefully Epicurean philosophy: "The charm I find in old age-for I was never happier than I am now-comes of having learned to live...