Word: tertium
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Throw left and right and tertium quid o'er--Ring in Harvard's happy Thermidor. With a wreath to the Left and a wreath to the Right, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...
Another conglomerate, the P.D.M. is a center party that has tried without notable success to be a tertium quid between Gaullism and Communism. The P.D.M. inherited the mantle of the Fourth Republic's Christian Democratic Mouvement Républicain Populaire. Economically progressive, Europe-minded and pro-U.S., the P.D.M. is still far from the balance-of-power position between left and right that the M.R.P. enjoyed, but may pick up more seats...
...private obscurity wherein he had always preferred darkly to shine. His London solicitor believed that Ouspensky was "the greatest man alive." Sentiments like that of the solicitor were once held by various impressionable readers of A New Model of the Universe and Ouspensky's earlier Tertium Organum, a massive work of esoteric philosophy that Ouspensky wrote in Russia before World War I and first published in English in the U.S. in 1920. Moscow-born Ouspensky was at that time living in Constantinople. The late Viscountess Rothermere, then in Washington, read Tertium Organum, got "passionately" interested in it, cabled-Ouspensky...
...Gurdjieffites look for leadership to Alfred Richard Orage, onetime editor of the London New Age. In England they looked to Metaphysician Peter Ouspensky (Tertium Organum] until he quarreled with Gurdjieff. Manhattan Gurdjieffites include: Architect Hugh Ferriss, Editor Herbert Croly (New Republic), Socialite Mrs. Meredith Hare, Critic Gorham B. Munson, Musician Jeffrey Mark, Farmer Schuyler Jackson (TIME, Dec. 23), Authors Muriel Draper, Isa Glenn, Bayard Schindel, Jean Toomer...
...Cyrano has become an institution in the U. S. theatre is due largely to the abilities of his art director, Claude Bragdon. Claude Bragdon's fame lies principally outside the theatre; largely in fact, it exists in the fourth dimension for it washe who translated Ouspensky's Tertium Organum and wrote, among other works, Four Dimensional Vistas. When Einstein came to the U. S., Bragdon was one of the first named as belonging to that hypothetical "ten" who understood the master's theory of relativity. Especially was Claude Bragdon interested in mathematical metaphysics as applied to esthetics...