Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Group IV. He was in Group IV again at the end of sophomore year, although he had produced one good long paper in government tutorial for Authur Holcombe, then an associate professor of Government. Aware of Kennedy's strong Democratic background, Holcombe assigned Kennedy work on Rep. Bertrand Snell, an upstate New York Republican who often spoke for private power interests. Kennedy apparently enjoyed his study of Snell...
...record of their defeats: portraits etched in acid and affection. There was the romantic poet Lionel Johnson, "a spiritual waif who couldn't endure the truth, but demanded a lovelier fiction to revel in, invented, or accepted it, and called it revelation." There was the "brilliant genius" Bertrand Russell, who suffered from "a microscopic intensity that narrowed each of his insights, lost the substance in the visible image, the sense in the logic of the words, and made him, though he might be many-sided, a many-sided fanatic...
Passionate Detachment. Bertrand Russell scoffed at Santayana's detached philosophy as the result of "emotional privation." It is true that Santayana was leary of emotion all his life, especially sexual emotion; he had come from a cold and broken family. But Biographer Cory shows how much passion can be put into a philosophy of detachment. Cory had been Santayana's private secretary and kept in touch with him for 25 years, and Santayana unburdened himself to Cory as to few others. Explaining why his philosophy seemed so cool, he once wrote: "Each passion or hope when alive sees...
Unfortunately, the Williamses flourish the needle of humor without jabbing it into any rich vein of comedy. An artificial drawing-room comedy can nurture an earthy home truth. But To Love spouts more poppycock about the parent-child relationship and child rearing than has been heard since Bertrand Russell ran a school where boys and girls played together in the nude. Elegantly gowned by Parisian couturiers, Claudette Colbert, who seems to have a dimple in her voice, whips herself into an understandable motherly and wifely froth. As the son, Robert Drivas is a personable rebel. The evening belongs to Cyril...
...Nazi sympathies, an old and absurdly exaggerated charge,* and of meddling too much in Greek politics, hardly a British concern. The anti-Greek chorus is made up of a motley collection of Communists, Socialists, antimonarchists, vague crusaders in search of new causes, ban-the-bombers (including that foolish sage, Bertrand Russell), all of them joined in the London streets by joyriding beatniks. Amazingly, they were also joined, in spirit, by Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson and Deputy Leader George Brown, who chose to boycott a banquet for the visitors-which could only raise questions about the mental health and stability...