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Like Philosopher George Santayana, who was at Harvard with him and who lives in a convent in Rome, Berenson likes his high remoteness from a world which he thinks is becoming more & more authoritarian. "I dread a world state run by biologists and economists ... by whom no life would be tolerated that didn't contribute to an economic purpose . . . Art can offer the surest escape from the tedium of threatening totalitarianism. It mustn't be reckless, freakish, fantastic, but must console and ennoble...
Philosopher George Santayana's judgment, at 84, of the human race: "There are no great men today...
When George Santayana '86 said o the Lampoon, ". . . always late and not always funny," he was, to the best knowledge of the reading public, making one of his most timeless statements. In a recent issue, for example, there is a somewhat autobiographical piece by a writer who describes himself as having "the appearance of a second-hand, dejected tea-bag" and whose style is, in most respects consistent with this aspect...
Last year "Copey" came out of his semi-retirement to revive his famed Christmas readings with a serving of "Dinner at the Cratchitts" by Charles Dickens. When George Santayana '86 and Robert Benchley '12 heard it in their respective college days, it provoked them to diverse literary expression on the piece. The humorist was inspired to parody, and the philosopher to eulogy of Copeland as "an artist rather than a scholar...
...remade by other men, and its true name is mores, which are transient. And even if, like the Ten Commandments, an ethical code has a religious origin, but is not newly illuminated for each generation by fresh drafts of religion, then its followers are trapped in what Santayana calls "the snare of moralism, that destroys the sweetness of human affections by stretching them on the rack of infinity...