Word: willey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ENGLISH MORALISTS by Basil Willey. 318 pages. Norton...
...more admired than read. Impeccably cool and collected, preening themselves on their rationalism, they leave the present impassioned age cold indeed. Yet these writers played a large part in shaping modern notions of good and evil, pleasure and pain, freedom and tyranny. They are also eminently readable, writes Basil Willey, English-literature professor for 18 years at Cambridge. His engaging little book may well spark a rationalist revival...
...believer in God who makes his credo perfectly plain in the course of the book, Author Willey is not in complete sympathy with these earnest skeptics. He gives them their due in a few felicitous phrases without becoming their advocate...
...America, 1810 to the Present" by Juan Marichel, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, a graduate seminar in Latin American intellectual history by Marichal, "Contemporary Poetry of Latin America" by Robert G. Glickman, lecturer on Spanish, and next year "Peoples and Cultures of South America" by Gordon R. Willey, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology, and Evon Z. Vegt, professor of Social Anthropology...
...Anthropologist Matthew Stirling, long with the Smithsonian, says that headrests are worldwide, and people living in similar climates are apt to have similar house designs. As for the Buddha-like figurines: "There are only a few ways," says Stirling, "for a human being to sit down." Harvard Anthropologist Gordon Willey is also skeptical. Says Willey: "The high American civilizations from Mexico to Peru had been rolling for 1,500 to 2,000 years before this possible Asiatic migration...