Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlie Chan's Secret" is rather disappointing to a Charlie Chan fan. We are afraid it would be a kindness to retire the noted detective before he comes to an ignominious end. It seems as though, Warner Oland would understand Addison's feeling that he would rather kill Sir Roger than have someone else disgrace...
...goes to Solovyev chiefly for the light which he sheds on Tolstoy, his inveterate opponent in religion, and on Dostoievsky. All three men must be studied if one wishes to understand the intellectual life of Tsarist Russia at the end of the XIXth century, which was dominated by Pan-Slavism and religiosity, with unperceived but strong currents of Marxism and anarchism. Solovyev's "Plato" first appeared in 1898, two years before his death, and it served to reinforce the philosophical opposition to materialism and positivism. Such disciples as he now retains are emigres in Paris and Prague. Bolshevism has swept...
Sirs: A blossom to TIME'S copywriters (Jan. 13, p. 13) for their crisp, 75-word, four-sentence summary of illegal and defunct AAA-so simple even a Democrat should understand. VIOLET G. OWENS St. Louis...
Whether novel-readers could enjoy all parts of The Last Puritan, whether they could understand its full significance without some knowledge of Santayana's background and philosophical studies, seemed questionable. They might feel that the rippling, intellectual talk, full of subtle dialectical twists and adroit insight, which the philosopher puts into the mouths of his characters, was never heard on earth-or at least never in pre-War New England. They may feel also that the central character of a philosophical football player, a young millionaire who sickens and fades because his moral standards cannot be reconciled with...
...popular lecturer, Santayana's courses became famed. His students included T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Walter Lippmann, Bronson Cutting, Felix Frankfurter. Robert Benchley attended his classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly considered snobbish. Disliking Boston society, he called it "a Harvard faculty meeting without any business." Although he enjoyed teaching, described it as "a delightful paternal art," he admitted disliking ''the taste of academic straw," was ironically amused when President Lowell declared that he was not interested in the degree...