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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Speare, who has spent three years in Hollywood writing for the movies, was enthusiastically received when she lectured here last year. She has chosen "Discovering Aristotle in Hollywood" as the unique title for today's talk, in which she will designate the literary principles that must be employed by the successful cinema author...
Bruening gave the Godkin lectures here last year, and was in Cambridge earlier this year consulting on plans for the Littauer School of Public Administration. At that time he gave an informal talk to Government students on the growth and decline of the German constitution...
...about what did we talk? I'll write you first of the things nearest home. Yes, of course Professor Whitehead: Process and Reality, Science and the Modern World; and the little essays: Nature and Life, which unfortunately Santayana has not seen. One cannot say that Professor Whitehead and Santayana are in philosophical agreement on many points. But I can assure you in one way they're absolutely alike: Both call Bertram Russell, "Berty". But even here all is not clear: For I understood from Santayana that it was he who gave Mr. Russell that name; but if I remember correctly...
...talk with Mr. Santayana it is as difficult to pigeon-hole him as a "type" as it is to pigeon-hole his philosophy. He's not an American, though he was educated there; he's not a Spaniard, though he was born one. He's more the ancient Greek somehow or other brought up in the 19th century England. Though he dislikes "the taste of academic straw" he's a scholar who zealously fools his work. He has the greatness of genius, and yet the common sense of one richly human. Like the ancients, he would make philosophy...
...Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. sat down to seal an historic industrial treaty. The broad outlines of the treaty between Steel and Labor had already been settled by the negotiators' respective superiors, John Llewellyn Lewis for Labor and Myron Charles Taylor for Steel (TIME, March 15). After the first talk Philip Murray declared: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor Movement...