Word: maritain
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Despite his pragmatism, Riordan has a strong philosophical bent. A Jesuit- educated Irish Catholic reared in New Rochelle, New York, he studied under French philosopher Jacques Maritain at Princeton. Riordan still adorns his speech with quotations from St. Ignatius and G.K. Chesterton. He has a Midas touch as well. After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, he moved to Los Angeles in 1956 and parlayed his $80,000 inheritance into a ) stock-market fortune. Today, after starting his own law firm and plunging into a 20-year succession of venture-capital deals, he is worth $100 million...
...guest about what might happen at National Review now that Bill Buckley has retired. A tweedy editor of the critical monthly New Criterion has some delicious gossip about faculty problems at Duke. A lanky novelist asks if anyone else plans to catch the lecture on Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain at the Opus Dei center next door...