Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noting that this is certainly not true in the field of science, Thimann mentioned an article written by Bertrand Russell just prior to World War I. In connection with the achievements of physics, Russell at that time contended that all the important advances had already been made, and the only major task remaining was to "determine the great constants of nature to one or two more decimal places...
Mathematics had been partially unshackled from the physical world by the discovery of non-Euclidean geometrics in the nineteenth century, but the publication of Principia Mathematica in 1908 burst the chains. This three-volume monument by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead expressed the fundamental concepts of mathematics in terms of still simpler concepts of logic, and showed that mathematics may be viewed as a game of manipulating symbols according to rules. Since mathematicians can adopt any rules they want, the truths proved in mathematics can have no necessary connection with the world outside of mathematics...
...letter written early this month, Bertrand Russell, the British pacifist philosopher, praised the Movement and authorized an endorsement to be used over his name...
...accustomed to being called a philanderer, but when he was labeled a philanthropist, Richard Burton reacted as if it were a dirty word. The ruckus started when Bertrand Russell's "Peace Foundation" announced that Burton was giving it all his British earnings. Not so, cried Richard. He had merely donated a few pounds and did not agree with Lord Bertie's anti-American jeremiads. In fact, deadpanned the actor, he gives most of his loose pence to the Invalid Tricycle Foundation of Wales (for crippled miners). Wife Liz had a different challenge. For a Lido opening in Paris...
...pseudo-sociology begins soberly enough with Philosopher Bertrand Rusell interviewing a band of clean-shaven war babies "who don't want to belong to any mass society; they want to be different." Different they are. In Italy, mindless young things don their party best and spark the fun at a swank resort by butchering a pig. "Will they do it again?" asks the narrator with elaborate seriousness. "If so, then the pig died in vain." In Switzerland, mixed nude skiing ap pears to be the latest kick. France has orgiastic "happenings," a homosexual nightclub, and parachutists with a marked...