Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Books v. Convertibles. Stoke wasted no time. As some students sized him up, he was a friendly, mild-mannered political scientist, still youthful and brisk at 44, whose idea of a good time was to sit down in his study with a copy of Bertrand Russell. But L.S.U. found new President Stoke meant business about keeping politics off the campus at Baton Rouge. He wanted Louisianans to understand that the university was for education and not "an instrumentality of government." Nor was the university a playground. "Give a student a convertible and a textbook," he said, "and you cannot expect...
...found them to be neither. But St. John's felt reassured on one point: there seemed to be no regrets. No one indicated that if he had it to do all over he would not start right in with Homer, happily read on up through Bertrand Russell again...
Joseph Goldstein is an elderly New York lawyer and ex-city magistrate who likes to tilt at educational windmills-and sometimes bowls them over. In 1940 he helped unseat Bertrand Russell from a teaching chair at the College of the City of New York on the grounds that Russell's writings were "lecherous, salacious . . . lustful." Last week Goldstein took off on another joust: unless two books which he considered "a menace" were banned from classrooms and public-school libraries within five days, he threatened to sue the Board of Education. The two books were Oliver Twist (the British film...
...LAWRENCE'S LETTERS TO BERTRAND RUSSELL (111 pp.)-Edited,with on introduction by Harry T. Moore-Gotham Book Mart...
...present case the forgiving listener was the Hon.* Bertrand Russell, 43-year-old lecturer on mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, author (with Alfred North Whitehead) of Principia Mathematica, one of the most revolutionary books of the 20th Century. The year was 1915-16; D. H. Lawrence was 30 and beginning to be well known, but in the middle of a "spiritual crisis" that was plunging him into "utter darkness of chaos." All that Russell and Lawrence had in common was a passionate objection to the continuance of World War I, and Lawrence hoped that they might not only get together...