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...highly individual intermediaries between personal agony and philosophy: writers like Unamuno and, later, Ortega y Gasset. To this group of brilliant egoists Santayana really belongs. His real excellence lay in literature. He was a good minor poet of the severe kind, and understood, quite well, that he had been torn away in childhood from the sources of passion which feed great poetry. He was an admired literary critic and, indeed, has been compared, because of their common elegance, with Matthew Arnold...
...Columbia College catalogue calls Morningside Heights "a center of culture and learning, which although in the city, is not part of its rushing life." Unfortunately, this is not completely true. The campus is a crowded one, cluttered with too-tall buildings and temporary shacks that have never been torn down, and interspersed with only occasional splotches of foliage...
...Portugal during 1917. She appeared before a group of small children on six successive months and delivered various messages about the coming war. On her final visit, the sun is supposed to have rotated and thrown out rays of colored lights. The unhappy position of one of the children, torn between belief in her vision and the incredulity of her parcuts, is past of this legend...
...whole story, Smena failed to mention that 1) players sometimes steal bases during a game, 2) fans have been known to call for an umpire's death, 3) sport-writers often report that a team was trounced, drubbed, thrashed, lambasted, walloped, pummeled, mauled, clubbed, axed, flayed, skinned, ripped, torn, smashed, crushed, murdered, massacred or slaughtered...
Colombia's three-year undeclared civil war reached a new pitch of ferocity. Heretofore, most of the fighting had been confined to the countryside, where Conservative troops and police fought pitched battles against "bandits," i.e., Liberal guerrillas. Last week the capital city of Bogotá was torn with strife...