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...intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless." Seeing Sharply. Borges' stories take place in a world that is half commonplace, half fantastic. Dreams occur within dreams; time loses its significance. What counts is momentary impulse and observation. A story mysteriously titled Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius concerns a mythical planet where people have no conception of material objects. Things have no names; they are described as they appear at the moment. People call the moon, for example, "round airy-light on dark" or "pale-orange-of-the-sky." Life has dissolved into pure poetry...
...Died. Tertius van Dyke, 72, dean emeritus of Connecticut's Hartford Theological Seminary, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Park Avenue Presbyterian Church ("Religion makes a very small dent upon New York"), son and biographer of clergyman-educator Henry van Dyke; of" pneumonia; in New Milford, Conn...
...music swelled through the Gothic nave and died away. At the organ console beside the apse, a white-haired little man of 79 turned off the organ switch and gathered up his music. Dr. T. Tertius Noble, organist for three decades at Manhattan's famed St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church, had decided to give up playing in public "while I can still do a good...
...modern organists enjoy the sort of fame obtainable in most other fields of instrumental music. U.S. top rankers, be sides Weinrich, include E. Power Biggs of Harvard University; Ernest White of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Manhattan; Dr. T. Tertius Noble...
...leaving the church for Gunnery, Headmaster van Dyke at 50 is doing what his famed father did at almost the same age, when he resigned his Manhattan pastorate to teach English at Princeton. Tertius van Dyke was in one of his father's classes there. He went with Henry van Dyke to The Hague when Woodrow Wilson appointed the author of Fisherman's Luck U. S. Minister to The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The son grew a mustache as flowing as the father's, later collaborated with him on a syndicated newspaper column, accompanied him on innumerable trout...