Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROGER BERTRAND West Warwick...
...Married. Bertrand Russell, 80, British philosopher-author (Unpopular Essays, New Hopes for a Changing World), longtime champion of premarital sex and critic of modern marriage ("Most . . . would break up at middle age if it were not for economic considerations"); and Edith Finch, 52, onetime teacher at Bryn Mawr; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in London...
...Engaged. Bertrand Russell, 80, Britain's famed philosophical trustbuster (Unpopular Essays, New Hopes for a Changing World) and thrice-married critic of modern manners & morals ("Most marriages would break up at middle age if it were not for economic considerations"); to Edith Finch, 52, onetime English teacher at Bryn Mawr College, now his secretary; in London...
...London publisher announced a new book for its next spring list: Satan in the Suburbs, five short stories by Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 80, the first Russell fiction published under his own name. (One of the stories, The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X, was published anonymously in Go magazine earlier this year...
GEORGE SANTAYANA was one of the three immensely old wise men of the West, though his influence in philosophy and affairs could not be compared to that of his fellows and contemporaries, Benedetto Croce or Bertrand Russell. He never played their part in public life: as a man and a philosopher he was one of nature's exiles. Taken by his Spanish father at the age of eight from the mournful and austere town of Avila in Spain and set down among American relations in the intellectual Boston of 1872. Santayana became an American by his education at Harvard...