Word: santayana
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...breakfast at Annenberg can provide the sustenance to invigorate the crimson cells and platelets. For others it is possibly greatest when going to class in subjects that have been shaped by the men who have become these ghosts. Think of government: Adams, Adams, Roosevelt, Roosevelt and Kennedy; philosophy: Emerson, Santayana, William James; the sciences: Agassiz, Bowdich and all those Nobel laureates; and literature: from John Harvard himself, who hailed from the same town as Shakespeare, to Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot...
...wrong! I think learning history is wonderful--as long as you know all of it. After all, George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." But ethnic groups often tend to have a myopic view of history, remembering their own history and nothing else...
...Holocaust and about how we must never let it happen again lest people forget. But, alas, look at Bosnia, where there is so much ethnic cleansing happening it is a virtual repeat of World War II. The problem with invoking the Jewish Holocaust for historical memory--in connection with Santayana's quote--is that it can never happen again without being noticed. People will never forget it, and therefore, it never will happen again, at least not on the scale of Nazi Germany...
...daytime, has the same dark hues as the hit movies on which it is based, but probably more entertainment bang for the buck. The animation nicely reproduces the films' shadowy, expressionist look; the action scenes really make sense; and the scripts aspire to more. This brooding superhero even paraphrases Santayana: "A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts while losing sight of his goal." Holy egghead...
...could organize "Secret Sanford," and resurrect Redd Foxx to deliver "the big one." Or maybe "Secret Santana" would inspire revelers to croon "Black Magic Woman" to their lucky recipients of holiday cheer. "Secret Satan," however, might not go over too well with the anti-evil crowd, and "Secret Santayana" wouldn't work if people can't remember the past...