Word: rousseau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frenchmen could also look farther back, to a time when France's name was synonymous with freedom of thought-the days of Jean Jacques Rousseau and François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, who discovered for the people that "liberty of thought is the life of the soul...
Virtue without Mortgages. Santayana's maternal grandfather José Borras, who "became a Deist, an ardent disciple of Rousseau, and I suspect a Freemason," fled Spain in 1823, settled in Glasgow, and moved to "rural, republican, distinguished, Jeffersonian Virginia. Here, if anywhere, mankind had turned over a new leaf, and in a clean new world, free from all absurd traditions and tyrant mortgages, was beginning to lead a pure life of reason and virtue." In 1835 Grandfather was back in Spain, U.S. consul at Barcelona, appointed by Andrew Jackson at a low point in U.S.-Spanish relations...
...father, Ptolemy Auletes, down to that of Communist Earl Browder (who used to flute away his time in Leavenworth Prison), many men have been unable to leave the instrument alone. The flute has claimed, among others, Frederick the Great, Henry VIII, George III, George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Benvenuto Cellini, and composer Hector Berlioz. U.S. Composer Stephen Foster could not play anything else. Charles G. Dawes and George Bernard Shaw are both amateurs...
...part of the Great Design of Henry IV of France and his minister Sully. Rousseau included it in his Project for Perpetual Peace. Mild William Penn was for it. So was Abbe de Saint-Pierre. But not until 1815, when the reactionary genius of Prince Metternich bore splotchy fruit in what has accurately been called the Unholy Alliance, was international policing really put to the test of action...
Chile's Herrera was not copycatting anybody. He was middleaged, had painted a lot before he ever saw Rousseau's work. His father, a successful businessman, called all artists "monkey drawers," made his son swear by the Holy Virgin that he would not take up art as long as his father lived. Young Luis kept his oath till he was in his middle 30s. But when he was a schoolboy he made such beautiful maps that his geography teacher told the other children to copy them...