ABSTRACT
The war was substantially over, but conditions in Rome at the end of 1944 and at the beginning of 1945 were still difficult. He interpreted current dilemmas according to his historical vision, and shows openness, accuracy, and foresight, particularly in his remarks about the Soviet Union-qualities that inform Dominations and Powers, his least read and least understood book. Reliable accounts of George Santayana's bearing and conversation then are few. One such is that of James Turnure, who visited him two or three times in 1946. Turnures description fleshes out the disembodied voice that is heard so insistently in the correspondence; the English university giggle of Santayana's youth still present, and the splendid phrase, "the Tiger of the Flesh" indicating spontaneity in conversation and continuity in temperament beyond the customary in men of eighty-two.
