Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edward Teller, principle architect of the H-bomb, declared that "The effects of an atomic war fought with greatly perfected weapons. . . .will endanger the survival of man." Last summer two groups of Nobel Prize-winning scientists condemned continued H-bomb tests; the one headed by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell noted the dangers of radioactive dust clouds and "slow torture of disease and disintegration" in future generations...
...Bertrand Russell, Britain's most astute rationalist, once wrote an essay called "The Harm that Good Men Do." In this book, that is also the theme of Roman Catholic Convert Greene. He saw the French debacle in Indo-China as correspondent for LIFE and the London Sunday Times. Out of Saigon, he wrote of the doomed Vietnamese, the touchy, defeatist French and their absurd allies like the Caodist "Pope," who had female cardinals and canonized Victor Hugo. Most significantly, he wrote in his diary: "Is there any solution here the West can offer? But the bar tonight was loud...
...forth Leninistic harmonies, that physics must be de-Semiticized . . . non-Aryans sterilized, the kulaks exterminated: to believe all this, even unanimously-above all unanimously-must lead a people to catastrophe . . . Hamlet is frequently cited as an example of the tragedy caused by thought not followed by action, but, as Bertrand Russell judiciously observes, the totalitarians ought rather to meditate upon the fate of Othello, on the disasters provoked by action not preceded by thought...
...monthly ($7.50 a year) already had 150,000 subscribers. The magazine has about 100 backers, who put up $1,000,000, according to Gutterman. Intended to popularize the wisdom of the ages in words and pictures, Wisdom in its first issue carries such bylines as Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bertrand Russell. Mohandas K. Gandhi and Henry Ford II. Their pieces have all appeared elsewhere as essays, book chapters or speeches, but Gutterman plans to run some original pieces in future issues...
...Intelligent Heart, by Harry T. Moore, was certainly the best single introduction to the life of Novelist D. H. Lawrence. He aroused great critical passions and great personal response (he almost drove so sane a fellow as Bertrand Russell to suicide), but Biographer Moore steered a steady course through the tortured life of one of the 20th century's most disturbing writers...