Word: santayana
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...Santayana's Spark Sirs: As TIME's review of copious The Last Puritan (Feb. 3, p. 75) was characteristically pithy and succinct, so TIME-worthy were the picture-cover of the author and the intimate comments anent his banker-build and the routine of his days on that philosophers' Olympus where years ago he found his peace...
...shame to those who will falter long before reaching the end of the novel; but lucky are the few in whom its appearance alone may fan to a momentary flame long-smoldering sparks once kindled by the man, Santayana...
...compare with the many who, even as President Roosevelt, "sat at the feet" of the immortal Royce are the hosts who dog-trotted at the heels of George Santayana. ERNEST SCHEIN Chicago...
There is one bit of self-revelation in the last page of the book of which your review-did not take advantage that is needed to complete your picture of its author. In the epilog Mario is made to tell Santayana that, "The trouble with you philosophers is that you misunderstand your vocation. You ought to be poets, but you insist on laying down the law for the universe." And that, Santayana remarks earlier in the volume, is "simply the tragedy of the spirit when it's not content to understand but wishes to govern."... B. H. KIZER Graves...
...Goheen, popular head assistant in the equally popular Philosophy A, however, the loyalty and respect transcends ordinary intellectual acceptance and borders on adulation. Or so it seemed to his students in yesterday's section meeting. In speaking of Professor Santayana and the veneration in which Professor Whitehead holds his former colleague's beliefs, Dr. Goheen stated that Professor Whitehead held Santayana to be possibly the greatest philosopher since Plato. Finding occasion later to repeat his remark. Dr. Goheen blithely quoted Professor Whitehead as considering Satayana the greatest Philosopher since Whitehead...