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...Subject: "The Use of Leisure." Excerpt: "Probably the thing from which I derived the most benefit in connection with The Five Arts* was the contact I had with outside speakers. . . . A day or so spent in the company of such men and women as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Thornton Wilder, Bertrand Russell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay are opportunities that few are fortunate enough to have...
...Bertrand Russell says jealousy should not be considered a virtue any more, but if you go monkeying around with somebody's Packard for which he has paid good money and thinks highly of, why you are likely to get a busted nose and that's all there...
Should doting but fixation-fearing parents kiss their babies by a stop watch? Should a father merely shake hands with his moppet before retiring? Is it bad for a child to like his nurse? In the current Parents' Magazine, Bertrand Russell, famed British philosopher, takes it upon himself to refute some new-fangled ideas about parenthood, to disseminate a few commonsense tenets of his own. Excerpts from his treatise, entitled: "Are Parents Bad for Children...
...likes to tinker with machinery. He has written some 15% of the 400 plays in his repertoire, and his collection of books on Chinese drama, art and music is noteworthy. Among those who have admired his acting are Fritz Kreisler, Somerset Maugham, the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, Bertrand Russell. Tumultuously has he been received in Japan...
...Stewart has contributed handsomely with a take-off on the "New Book of Etiquette"--"Perfect Behavior" and his "Parody Outline of History". And even such an inadequate bibliography as this one would be sadly incomplete without "Is Sex Necessary?" a highly amusing burlesque on everything in general and Mrs. Bertrand Russel in particular; and by all means, the "Censored Mother Goose Rhymes...