Word: bertrand
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...line with this, Sagan's watchword is a citation from Bertrand Russell: "William James used to preach the will to doubt." This is, of course, a sound scientific viewpoint. What's awry in Broca's Brain is that Segan doesn't practice this, save for one chapter. His essay on Emmanuel Velikovsky takes a once popular but porous theory explaining a series of converging mythological catastrophes and subjects it to an exacting analysis. This piece, three times as long as any other, is the most interesting, the most developed, and certainly the most scientifically responsible in the book...
...awfully hard to feel sorry for a man who disembowels little girls. In fact, Director Bertrand Tavernier's new film, The Judge and The Assassin, unwittingly reveals just how impossible this feat of emotional empathy is. The horror of the crime repells us; we are haunted by the image of our own face screaming in the last minutes of life. A Theodore Bundy-style murder dehumanizes the victim, turning a person into an object. Horrified yet fascinated, we devour the newspaper clippings; each gruesome detail imprints itself on our memory. We become transfixed by the terrifyingly personal nature of random...
Whether or not football induced the glow, the Class of '54 saw Harvard, then as now, as idyllic home. The distinguished lecturers and guests--Bertrand Russell, T.S. Eliot, Konrad Adenauer, Archibald MacLeish's audiences spilled out into the Yard--came and went...
There is a new urgency, and a sense of responsibility to the anti-nuclear movement. Perhaps that is because the issues now seem to be resolving themselves into clearer and more fundamental choices. Some understood these choices long ago. As two distinguished scientists and humanitarians, Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russelt, put it earlier in the Nuclear...
...preceded the downfall of Germany's Weimar Republic. He urged intellectuals to defy what he considered congressional inquisitions, even at the risk of "jail and economic ruin." He was widely denounced, and Senator Joseph McCarthy called him "an enemy of America." In his last public act, Einstein joined Bertrand Russell and other scholars in a desperate plea for a ban on all warfare...