Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forbidden Fruit. Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey dismissed Wodehouse (pronounced Woodhouse) as English literature's "performing flea," an acidulous comment that P.G. himself ("Plum" to friends) loved to repeat. But other writers, ranging from Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell to Bertrand Russell and Evelyn Waugh, recognized that Wodehouse was a good bit more. Waugh, an indisputable master of the comic novel, would reread his favorites from the Wodehouse canon every year, as some people go back for spiritual sustenance to Shakespeare or the Bible. "For Mr. Wodehouse there has been no fall of Man, no 'aboriginal calamity...
Cornell coach Dick Bertrand plans no major lineup changes from his last encounter with the Crimson except that sophomore Dave Chrastina will replace Steve Kelleher in the nets. Kelleher did not play as well as his Harvard counterpart, Brian Petrovek, in the Crimson's January victory...
...Cornell contest showing, despite the loss, was one of the team's best so far. Big Red mentor Dick Bertrand left Hanover muttering "That's a 1-7 team?" as his squad had its hands full all evening. Dartmouth held leads of 3-1, 5-4 and 6-5 before surrendering...
...Rivalry. There has been only one Shaffer flop to date, The Battle of Shrivings, about the pitting of a peace movement leader, rather like Bertrand Russell, against an errant disciple. Ironically it opened within weeks of his brother Anthony's hit Sleuth in 1970. Peter says there is no fraternal rivalry; he suggested that Anthony, who was making films for TV, try writing again...
Tognoni said the tribunal, founded by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre to investigate allegations of U.S. war crimes in Vietnam, has turned its attention on Latin America "because there are the same kinds of imperialism and exploitation occurring there as occurred in Vietnam...