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...MIDDLE SPAN: VOLUME II, PERSONS AND PLACES - George Santayana -Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philosopher's Friends | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...grew old, writes George Santayana in this second volume of his autobiography, "persons yielded in interest to places." But The Middle Span is mostly about the people the great Spanish-born philosopher knew during his years as a professor of philosophy at Harvard -somnambulistic years he calls them, when his progress was slow, his standing uncertain, and when President Eliot looked on him without approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philosopher's Friends | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...less interesting and important than Volume I (TIME, Jan. 10, 1944), which described brilliantly the conflict between Latin and U.S. cultures as sensed by an uncommonly perceptive youth. But Santayana's extraordinary mind and masterly prose could not produce a dull or unimportant book. He writes about the great figures of his time the way other biographers write about eccentric family servants. And he writes about friends unknown to the world-Andrew Green, "Swelly" Bangs, Bob Barlow, Howard Gushing, Howard Sturgis, Bob Potter, Lawrence Butler-as if they were philosophers whose minds he studied as he studied those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philosopher's Friends | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...George Santayana, 81-year-old poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan), was awarded Columbia University's quinquennial Nicholas Murray Butler gold medal for his four metaphysical books, Realms of Being. The award will have to go to Rome where, since 1941, he has shunned war in a convent, finding that "in solitude it is possible to love mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Contentment With Life. One of the qualities of the English spirit is happiness-"a deep source of inner contentment with life." Professor Rowse agrees with Santayana that the English provide the best example of a people in harmony with their environment. In Professor Rowse's case the harmony means far more than love of the rolling English landscapes which he evokes at the slightest excuse, and occasionally with no excuse at all. He loves English history as he loves the lilacs and rhododendrons, the chestnuts, yews and sycamores that he sees on his walks. The great houses where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love of England | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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