Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remain faithful to the usual American stereotype of the "prim" BBC [TIME, June 23] ... What American radio station would dare to broadcast the BBC's unexpurgated dramatization of the Trimalchio's Feast episode from the Satyricon of Petronius? On what American network could one expect to find Bertrand Russell debating the existence of God with a Jesuit priest...
Divorced. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 80, mathematician, philosopher, author, lecturer; by Countess Russell, the former Patricia Helen Spence, 41, his third wife and onetime secretary, who charged desertion; after 16 years of marriage, one son; in London...
After the holidays, intellectual fires blazed. Debates on socialism and the Harvard Democratic Club emerged. Bertrand Russell's talk on Harvard's "Intellectual Quarantine" brought a sharp counter from Lowell who denied that trustees were a great misfortune to universities. Undergraduates packed the Union to hear Russell a second time. "America is not ruled-by the Washington government," he said, "it is oil and Morgan that rule you." Meanwhile, the rise of fundamentalism brought a deluge of religious speakers to the college...
Napoleon at St. Helena, by General Henri-Gatien Bertrand. A vivid account of Napoleon's last months, from the journals of his grand marshal (TIME...
...Among the honorary chairmen: Philosophers Benedetto Croce, Jacques Maritain, Bertrand Russell and John Dewey...