Word: bertrand
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Divorced- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 62, mathematician, philosopher, writer; by Countess Dora Russell; in London. Grounds: adultery (TIME...
...unwavering in strict loyalty to itself." Katherine Mansfield, "a charming, pathetic figure," had a talent that was "not . . . robust . . . and it was overweighted by an impulsive admiration for the tales of Tchehov." To his much-maligned friend Hugh Walpole he gives the Swinnertonian accolade of "professional novelist." Bertrand Russell's cold logic irritates Swinnerton who says: "The suggestion that a man may know everything and understand nothing would be meaningless to him." To D. H. Lawrence, "a sort of latter-day Carlyle rather than a latter-day Blake," he doffs his hat: "Let there be no mistake, however...
...Dora Black, mother of his son, Bertrand Russell thought he had found a congenial spirit. She was a handsome, vigorous, earthy girl, daughter of a knight and lately down from Cambridge with highest honors. He married her, he explained, not because he thought it was his social duty but because he wanted to legitimatize his son to succeed to the Russell earldom...
...rehearsal of Bertrand Russell's sex opinions makes the 1920's seem a long time ago. Present-day laws and ideas about sex he regarded as an outdated hodgepodge based on the once inescapable connection between coitus and conception. Any man and woman, he boldly argued, should be free to live together without even the slim ties of Judge Ben Lindsey's companionate marriage, to part at any time until the woman became pregnant. Even then their bond should not be indissoluble. But he counseled parents to resort to divorce only for the gravest of reasons. Simple...
Without such preliminary advantages, Bertrand and Dora Russell tried hard to apply their creed to their own lives. Even when the London Times last year announced the birth of a child to Countess Russell and a journalist named Griffin Barry, her philosophic husband took it almost as a matter of course. But behind even the most determinedly modern thought lie old-fashioned impulses ingrained by generations of social custom, Last spring Countess Russell filed suit for divorce, charging adultery. The Earl did not contest the action of his onetime partner in sex education...