Word: bertrand
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...willingness to discuss the subject of war crimes in Vietnam, either while the war was going on or now that it is over. But the war crimes issue was once a much-discussed one outside of the government establishment. During the spring and winter of 1967, for instance, the Bertrand Russell Foundation sponsored the first International War Crimes Tribunal, which gathered evidence of malfeasance in the American conduct of the Indochina war. Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre invited the American government to send representatives to state its case to the tribunal, but the Johnson administration chose not to respond...
...regarded by posterity." This has been apparent to the reader all along and it's never become clear why posterity will regard him at all. Swados never establishes Lumen as a representative figure like Rubashov in Darkness at Noon: at best, he's a composite of Bertrand Russell and William O. Douglas and maybe some World War I pacifist like Roger Baldwin. All we know is that we're supposed to have read about him in the newspapers and that like another diarist. Leon Trotsky, he finds old age creeping up on him suddenly but would rather talk about more...
Lumen himself is an old-school radical and internationalist. He muckraked like Lincoln Steffens. During World War I he went to prison as a pacifist like Bertrand Russell, and later founded a progressive school for children. Even in his creaky 80s he flew to Biafra to organize relief for the starving...
Harvard killed a penalty with five minutes remaining, and Cornell strove for a final chance when coach Dick Bertrand pulled Chrastina at 19.05. The Big Red could not beat Petrovek, and with one second left Harvard's Dave Gauthier flipped the puck the length of the ice into an open net to close out the contest...
...Dick Bertrand's team, is contrast, has not enough an exceptional year and does not compare with earlier Big Red squads, which garnered eight consecutive Ivy crowns from 1966 to 1973. Cornell has a 17-7-2 overall mark--15-6-1 in ECAC play and 8-4 in Ivy competition...