Word: bertrand
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When R. P. I. and Brown broke Cornell's 30-game winning streak, speculation flourished that the Big Red was no longer a contender in college hockey. However, Kevin Petit's return from a knee injury seems to have steadied new coach Dick Bertrand's squad. Cornell also relies heavily on sophomores, who took a few games to adjust to varsity competition...
...builder and Red Wing coach will draw the kind of player Cornell needs to stay on top. And since Harkness will have no "official" capacity at Cornell, he will be free to use whatever measures he needs to recruit that talent. In addition, the man who replaced him. Dick Bertrand, is a walking stereotype of the Harkness player-28 years old, a former Canadian mountie who skated for Cornell last winter, and who was ineligible for the NCAA tournament. Plus ca change, plus cest la meme chose...
Peter Shaffer, whose succès de spectacle was The Royal Hunt of the Sun, plays a labored game of "hound the humanist" in The Battle of Shrivings. Sir Gideon Petrie (John Gielgud) is an aged, Bertrand Russell-like champion of rationalism living ascetically at Shrivings, a converted medieval abbey in the Cotswold Hills. From there he guides a peace movement and blandly preaches the perfectibility of human nature to youthful acolytes and to his wife (Wendy Hiller), with whom he renounced sex, on principle...
Aristocratic Disdain. The Rt. Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, third Earl Russell, was born into a tradition of aristocratic disdain for what the neighbors might say, if not with an active desire to epater le bourgeois. His grandfather, the first earl, was Prime Minister of England. His parents were ardent freethinkers and campaigners for women's rights. Bertie, considered frail, was educated at home, and there was much coming and going of tutors...
...Died. Bertrand Russell, 97, colossus of 20th century philosophy (see THE WORLD...