National Review, May 13th, 1988
George Santayana: A Biography, by John McCormick (Knopf, 612 pp., $30)
OUTSIDE THE INN Regis Martin
FOR THOSE of average cultural literacy, the name Santayana is likely to summon only a epigrammatic warning about people who cannot remember the past (the are condemned, he said, to repeat it). The other Santayana -- the one who wrote learned and elegant works on philosophy and literature, as well as a best-selling novel, and whose 25 years at Harvard inspired students like Wallace Stevens and Walter Lippmann -- this Santayana has been almost wholly forgotten since his death in 1952. Professo...
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