Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disturbed by the article on the ideological schism in the Communist world [Sept. 20] and the partially hidden suggestion that Bertrand Russell would "gullibly accept Soviet outrages." After reading several works by and about Lord Russell, I have yet to find even the slightest hint that he condoned the Stalinist purges. In fact in his essay "Why I Am Not a Communist," he states that he believes that Communism's theoretical tenets are false and that Communism would "produce an immeasurable increase of human misery...
...House of Representatives may thwart the Senate plan. Kentucky Congressman Carl Perkins says that OEO's future will be determined "by its good works between now and next year." Fearing the worst, OEO personnel are leaving the agency at record rates. Sargent Shriver's successor, Bertrand M. Harding, has adopted a conciliatory tone toward Congress but has thus far failed to placate his foes. Next year's budget is even more pinched than the outlays that Shriver fought to increase. Yet even OEO's future is not the key issue The agency's original mandate...
Garrison promised to name names, make arrests and get convictions. He did just that-or at least he began. He arrested Clay Shaw, a retired bachelor businessman well known at several levels of New Orleans society, high and low. Shaw, Garrison said, was really one Clay Bertrand, whose name cropped up in the Warren Report. As Bertrand, he said, Shaw had met with three men, including one Leon Oswald, and conspired to kill President Kennedy...
...comment and controversy are heard on the day-and-night conversation shows, which seem to be trying to turn TV into a talkathon. They frantically compete with each other for big-name, talkers. Joey Bishop interviews Ronald Reagan, Carson brings on Ayn Rand, Merv Griffin chats with Bertrand Russell. One night, Dick Cavett has Norman Mailer as his guest, the next night he leads a spirited discussion between James Bald win and Yale Philosopher Paul Weiss...
Never one to go gently into a good fight, Britain's Bertrand Russell came caustically to the defense of atheism in countering rumors that he had got religion at the age of 96. "There is a lie factory at work on behalf of the afterlife," wrote Lord Russell to a U.S. housewife who queried him on his alleged conversion. "My views on religion remain those which I acquired at the age of 16. I consider all forms of religion not only false but harmful...