Word: authority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the boss's boy leading the way, others among Russia's leading journalists got the idea, began breaking old molds. In an unprecedented gesture, Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta last week agreed to run a 1,100-word letter from U.S. Author Charles Neider, defending The Autobiography of Mark Twain, which he edited, against a hostile review in the Russian literary journal...
...nearly three times as much space.) As ground bait in the chilling stream of philosophic speculation, the publishers have sprinkled 500 illustrations, half of them in color, through this volume. From Thales (circa 624-546 B.C.), about whom little is known, to Whitehead and Wittgenstein, both of whom the author knew well, Russell tells something of the life as well as the ideas of the hundred-odd philosophers who have helped to make the mind of the West. Says he: "The current trend towards more and fiercer specialisms is making men forget their intellectual debts to their forbears...
...laughs at his injunction that therefore man should not eat fish. "Whether our brethren of the deep cherish equally delicate sentiments towards us is not recorded," Russell snuffles in a donnish gibe. It is almost as if the Greek fellow were declining the Dover sole as guest of the author at Trinity High Table...
...Marx, Author Russell demolishes the Red bogeyman not only for sociological or economic errors but for his faults in epistemology (theory of knowledge). Unfortunately, the power of logic stands somewhat diminished when Russell is bound to mention, almost as an afterthought, that "nearly half the world today is governed by states that put implicit trust in Marx's theories...
Whatever the inspiration that sent a flat-wheeled caboose clattering after Author Metalious' steam-powered first novel, Peyton Place, the sequel bears all the marks of a book whacked together on a long weekend. The original novel required readers interested only in literary privy-peeping to wear out their forefingers spelling through long passages devoted, with some success, to such matters as scene-setting and characterization. Return has little more scene-setting than a limerick, and the characterization is negligible. The meat of the book is as strong-flavored as bear steak-"Jennifer lay awake in the dark, smiling...