Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title "The Great Mystery," she had not returned to her old trade as a topnotch writer of mystery stories (Gaudy Night, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon). She was talking about the mystery of life after death, subject of a new London Sunday Times series (among future contributors: Bertrand Russell, the Aga Khan). Already noted as a translator of Dante and an able amateur theologian, Anglican Author Sayers gave a cogent and striking version of one Christian view of the afterlife...
...members of the committee include Samuel H. Beer, Paul Buck, J.N. Douglas Bush, Abram Chayes '43, Dean A. Clark, Merle Fainsod, John Finley, Jr. 25, Bertrand Fox, John K. Galbraith, Seymour E. Harris '20, Mark A. DeWolfe Howe '28, George B. Kistaikowsky, John V. Lintner, Harold C. Martin, Sumner H. Slichter, Charles H. Taylor, Robert Ulich, and John H. Van Vleck...
...committee included Samuel H. Beer, Paul H. Buck, J.N. Douglas Bush, Abram Chayes '43, Dean A. Clark, Merle Fainsod, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Bertrand Fox, John Kenneth Galbraith, Seymour E. Harris '20, Mark A. DeWolfe Howe '28, George B. Kistiakowsky, John V. Lintner, Harold C. Martin, Summer H. Slichter, Charles H. Taylor, Robert Ulich, John H. Van Vleck...
...such distinguished visitors as the future Edward VII. an inspection of Cooper Union was a must. As the years went by, everyone from Mark Twain to Woodrow Wilson to Bertrand Russell lectured there. The Union gave Inventor Michael Pupin his start in life; it trained Sculptor Saint-Gaudens. Its library was the favorite haunt of an immigrant boy named Felix Frankfurter. "It was the place." said Frankfurter later, "that first stretched my mind...
...essentially a kind of sophisticated Gallic equivalent of a rock-'n'-roller. She smokes incessantly, drinks Scotch methodically and goes to bebop dances at a nightclub called the "Kentucky."' Much of the time she is "bored passionately," and her casual, completely physical love affair with Bertrand, a fellow student, rarely takes the edge off that boredom. Then Bertrand introduces her to his uncle Luc and Dominique decides hopefully: "He's just the kind that seduces little girls like...