Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days ago, Carter plucked out Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy. He handled it gently, like an old friend, opening the worn pages carefully and glancing at familiar lines. "I've read it three or four times," he said...
Eleanor Herbert is a consummate self-deceiver. In her youth she entertained a succession of university students on the grounds that "there was no harm in making love, if they could first refer to Bertrand Russell." Imagining herself to be a literary talent, she rewrote a story 23 times until it grew "simpler, clearer, more barren each time...
According to estimates of organizations such as the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, there are now 100,000 political prisoners in Iran, most of whom have been jailed for criticizing or otherwise opposing the dictatorship of Shah Reza Pahlavi. Many of these prisoners are Iran's most gifted writers, artists, poets, intellectuals and university professors...
...were less liberal than they are today and the purpose of the house was to provide a place for students who could not afford to live in the River Houses. From the beginning its members prized their independence and espoused a fierce egalitarianism. Over the years they have followed Bertrand Russell's precept that the first duty of the citizen is to distrust his leaders...
Bennett also paraphrases Bertrand Russell's saying that "fencing is probably one of the most intellectual sports...