NEWS
September 13, 2004
On Tuesday, September 7, 2004, GRACE POE BRAWNER, 96, of Ocean Ridge, FL. She was the wife of the late H. Peirce Brawner, of Ocean Ridge, who died in 1981. Mrs. Brawner was born February 7, 1908, in Baltimore, MD and lived in Ruxton, MD, Gibson Island, MD, Raleigh, NC, Charleston, WV, Wellesley Hills, MA and Cleveland, OH before moving to Florida in 1958. She was a descendant of Robert Morris and Phillip Livingston, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and George Poe, who served as an officer in the Revolution and was with General Washington at Valley Forge.
NEWS
April 13, 2003
On April 1, 2003, BROOKE PEIRCE; beloved husband of Carol E. Peirce (nee Marshall); dear uncle of Lawrence Pierce, of Northampton, MA and Brooke Pierce Heraty, of Boston, MA. A Memorial Service will be held at the Haebler Chapel, on the Goucher College Campus, on Saturday, April 26, at 3 P.M. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Brooke Peirce Memorial Fund, Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson, MD 21204. Arrangements by the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly and Jacques Kelly,SUN STAFF | April 6, 2003
Brooke Peirce, a retired Goucher College English professor who imparted a love of Shakespeare and classical literature to his students, died Tuesday of lung cancer at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Cockeysville resident was 81. "His teaching was always superb, and he was a voice of culture and sanity in the faculty," said Rhoda Dorsey, former Goucher president. "He was polite, Southern in his ways and he loved language. He told a good joke, was funny and read constantly." Born in Washington and raised on Baltimore's University Parkway, he was a 1939 City College graduate.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Gary Dorsey and Gary Dorsey,Sun Staff | July 22, 2001
Chasing skirts, ingesting cocaine, advertising his own genius, failing to mark grades on time -- what, a member of the Johns Hopkins University faculty? Well, yes and no. It is one of the distinct curiosities of the summer that a best-selling tome about 19th-century intellectual history, Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club, has uncloaked this shadowy figure in Baltimore history. Tracing the development of America's most important philosophical contribution to the world -- pragmatism -- the book introduces the tragic, seamy and engrossing tale of a bygone Hopkins philosopher whom some insist today was an American Aristotle.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Michael Pakenham | July 1, 2001
Metaphysics, of course, is the study of first principles, things like knowing and being -- efforts to understand the nature of reality and other vast conceptual abstractions. The idea invites irony. In "Whispers of Immortality," T. S. Eliot famously worried about keeping the things warm. H. L. Mencken may have done best with "Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible." For the proscenium -- and title -- of his compelling exploration of three-quarters of a century of U.S. intellectual history, the fearless journalist Louis Menand chose an irony upon an irony: "The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America" (Farrar Straus Giroux.
NEWS
February 14, 1999
Precision countsHERE'S A timely excerpt from this month's Anne Arundel Bar Association newsletter:"The president, if able to forum shop, might prefer a perjury trial in Maryland. The Court of Special Appeals, citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent, holds that a defendant may not be convicted of perjury for a statement which was `literally true [but effectively] unresponsive and implied a negative answer.' Thus, precise questioning is imperative as a predicate for the offense of perjury."Andrea F. SiegelLicense to speakALMOST THREE hours into an Annapolis hearing on St. Helena Island on Thursday, Crownsville resident Beatrice Peirce stepped up to the microphone and tried to clarify some ground rules with Stephen LeGendre, county administrative hearing officer, before speaking.