Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William James Lectures are given every second year under the auspices of the Department of Philosophy or the Department of Psychology. Earlier James Lecturers have included John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...that weekend. He held a pipe in his teeeth, had a Scotch in his hand, and was dressed like the incarnate ideal of Ivy Magazine. But squelching a Cliffie with a crack like that overcame my initial repugnance, so sidling over, I soon put in a friendly word for Bertrand Russell...
...appeal trial brought a deluge of protests and pleas for clemency from world liberals and Marxists, including British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Scientist Julian Huxley, Peru's President Manuel Prado, Hungarian Writer Paul Igno-tus, French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as from such Communists as Artist Pablo Picasso and Poet Louis Aragon (who was later outraged to learn that the capitalist press knew of his appeal). Seemingly impressed, the Kadar regime said last week that, "pending re-examination of the case," it had "suspended" the death sentences of Intellectuals Obersovszky and Gali. But three days later...
Sargant's Battle for the Mind has been extravagantly praised, not by fellow psychiatrists but by big-name laymen and critics, e.g., Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Critic V. S. Pritchett, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr ("fascinating and profound"). Actually, plausible though it sounds, Sargant's thesis is based on shaky premises. He accepts uncritically the Pavlovian view that the brain and nervous system are something "which man shares with the dog and other animals." In effect, the human brain, probably because of its greatly enlarged cerebrum and vastly multiplied nerve junctions, is different in quality...
Nobel Bargain. Through the center, the various colleges and universities have been able to import a procession of visiting lecturers that any Ivy Leaguer might envy. The visitors have included everyone from Julian Huxley and Bertrand Russell to Nobel Prizewinner Otto Loewi of New York University and Buu-Hoi of the Institut de France. They may lecture at only two campuses or at all, but none has cost any one college more than...