Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL: 1914-1944. 418 pages. Little, Brown...
...Bertrand Russell is one of the world's most penetrating thinkers within the disciplines of mathematics and philosophy, and one of the most provocative, not to say infuriating, outside them. Yet he has ventured only timidly and superficially into the field of self-confession. Now 96, he is nearly fanatical in his public utterances, notably those concerning his anti-American position on the Viet Nam war, but he is not a driven author who boldly and recklessly storms the secret vaults of his own life. He is more a Sunday writer, coyly playing it safe, as he wistfully leafs...
...Cambridge, England, 24-year-old Lytton Strachey was loudly proclaiming that he and his fellow members of the Apostles, a small society of intellectuals, were about to inherit the earth. They never quite made it, but in their later guise as the Bloomsbury Group-Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell among others-they did become the most powerful extra-Establishment gang that England has seen in this century...
...coverage while he was watching NBC; perhaps it was while watching CBS that he missed NBC, if they did give coverage; or perhaps, like so many of us, he missed the whole thing in transit. At any rate, his erroneous reporting of the erroneous reporting reminds me vaguely of Bertrand Russell's observation that, in a democracy, at least one knows the leaders can never be more stupid than the people because, in so far as the leaders are stupid, the people are stupider for having elected them. Walter Cronkite for philosopher-king. Robert Somerby...
...perfection in obedience to God rather than as workable guidelines of behavior. The Rev. David H. C. Read, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, points out that in facing many problems of life the behavior of the Christian and the humanist might well be identical. Bertrand Russell and the Archbishop of Canterbury, for example, could equably serve on the same committee to improve housing. "The distinction is not in their action," Read argues. "It is in their motivation and ultimate conviction on the meaning of life." This suggests that the committed Christian who is immersed...