Word: staces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stace's subject will be "Some Misinterpretations of Empiricism...
Walter T. Stace, Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, of Princeton University, will give the first Alfred North Whitehead Lecture tonight at 8 p.m. in Room D, Emerson Hall...
Brothers and Sisters concerns Sophia and Christian Stace, who have been happily married for more than a quarter-century. Then one day poor Christian opens the fateful desk and finds a letter saying that he and Sophia had a common father. How could that happen, even in a Compton-Burnett plot? This way: Christian had never known who his father was. had grown up simply as the "adopted son" of Sophia's father, old Andrew Stace. In point of fact-as the letter now reveals-he was old Andrew's illegitimate son by a neighbor of theirs...
...children do not take it quite so well. Son Robin, carefully analyzing the situation, speaks rather bitterly of "my maternal grandfather, my paternal grandfather, my only grandfather." What makes the case even more difficult is that two of the Stace children were engaged to marry two of Mrs. Lang's offspring. The engagements had to be broken off, to avoid fresh incest. And when Sophia dies abruptly of "some internal illness that is mortal." the children really feel it is time for them to go and live somewhere else. The neighbors agree that this is a wise move, though...
Professing to see a Catholic conspiracy to dominate the educational system by converting the six leading universities in this country to Catholicism, Elderkin claimed the attacks on Stace and the Religion Department were logical parts of the strategy. "Halton's ulterior motive is quite obvious," Elderkin said. "He wants to get a foot in the door to the Department of Religion and ultimately kick out all the Protestants behind it. The one and sufficient answer is that Catholicism does not tolerate Protestantism and would destroy it if possible...