Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life of petty crime to punish himself. Between times, he discoursed on the total sin of the atom bomb. Wrote Edmund Wilson: "He seems to have been unique among bombers in having paused to take account of his responsibility and in attempting to do something to expiate it." Echoed Bertrand Russell: "The steps he took to awaken men's consciences to our present insanity were actuated by motives which deserve the admiration of all who are capable of feelings of humanity." British Poet George Barker was inspired to verse...
Expect for Bertrand Russell's short piece on the testban treaty, the rest of the articles are just as disgusting. Warren Boroson claims that Warren G. Harding was one-quarter Negro. O.K. So what? Psychiatrist Alfred Auerback worries about "fight mental health groups," because "educated people pay attention to their views. For example, in the February, 1962 Readers's Digest..." Publisher Ginzburg tells us about his courageous interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, someone who "proves it can happen here." And finally, a man named Bennett, clearly a member of the if-it-ain't-filthy-it-ain't-real school...
From "Stalin's Nightmare--Amor Vincit Omnia" in Bertrand Russell's Nightmares of Eminent Persons...
...British Museum Concerts, a veddy upper matron advises her son, "This music was written by a German, deah. That's something you'll have to work out for yourself." Funny thing, war. The review also gets its licks at the Royal Family, the English way of death, the Establishment, Bertrand Russell, the Bomb, and Will Shakespeare...
...Russell, Bertrand Nightmares of Eminent Persons. (Simon & Schuster...