Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They remember how Shirley gave new life and artistry to such old and unimaginative stories as "Heidi" and "Blue Bird." We're pretty well down in the dumps ourselves--for even more profound reasons. In an American youth polluted with the destructive forces of Communism, Fascism, Atheism, Cynicism, and Bertrand Russell, little Shirley has been the only ray of pure and unadulterated sunshine. For half a dozen years now, she has stood for all that is fine in America's young people. And so we say with Bill Robinson: "Virtue is never its own reward--except in Shirley Temple...
Reasonable and thinking people naturally frown upon any such appointment as the appointment of a man of the known proclivities of Bertrand Russell. Maurice H. Sullivan, City Councillor...
Harvard is an academic corporation granted a charter under certain specific conditions. This is tantamount to a license to engage in the teaching profession, provided the University abides by the provisions of the charter. The appointment of Bertrand Russell is grossly out of accord with the conditions laid down...
...Note: (1) The General Laws of Massachusetts contain a broad admonition that Harvard endeavor to "impress on the minds . . . of the youth permitted in its care . . . the principles of chastity and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society." The appointment of Bertrand Russell does not contravene that clause, as Mr. Sullivan suggests. Dr. Russell has stated that while on a Harvard platform he will confine himself to his lecture subject--announced as logic and semantics--since "even if I were permitted to expound my moral views in the classroom, my own conscience would not allow...
Opponents of the plan will undoubtedly attack it as being inspired by Harvard professors, Communists, Nazis, and probably even by Bertrand Russell. But the fact is that it is simply an American scheme, worked out by practical Americans, for the solution of an old American problem-inefficient municipal government. The Boston Herald...