Word: bertrande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of nuclear disarmament, the position of the British Labor Party has been ambiguous. Many left-wing unionists, pursuing a traditional, sentimental pacifism, sympathize with the unilateralist ban-the-bomb campaign led by Philosopher Bertrand Russell and other politically woozy intellectuals; at a national party convention 18 months ago, the left-wingers pushed through resolutions demanding that Britain renounce nuclear weapons. Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell later won a reversal of the party's official stand, but not until last week did he attack the nuclear disarmers in a scathing, unequivocal denunciation that drew only cheers from realistic antiCommunists...
...members of Bertrand Russell's Committee of 100, the six had hoped that the trial would serve as a soapbox from which to present their ban-the-bomb views. But painstakingly, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller (nicknamed by detractors "Sir Reginald Bullying Manner"), stressed that the issue of the trial was not the political or moral beliefs of the defendants, but the fact that in trying to crash the gates of the Wethersfield base, they had conspired to violate Britain's Official Secrets Act. Backing him up, the bench brushed aside the defendants' attempts to question...
...secretary of the league, Menon gave soapbox speeches, got sympathetic left-wing intellectuals like Laski, Bertrand Russell and Stafford Cripps to preach the gospel of Indian independence. Menon lived in a dreary bed-sitter in Camden Town in London's working-class borough of St. Pancras, eked out a living by writing occasional legal briefs, often lacked enough money for a meal. He became involved in Labor Party politics, served as a member of the St. Pancras borough council, where he is still remembered as "the best library chairman we ever had." For his work, he became...
...college Mollie embraces boys, Shakespeare ("fabulous"), an avant-garde poetry instructor, folk singing, atomic protest ("Free Bertrand Russell!"). She comes home on vacation a cool sophisti-cat, all burnished claws and no filial purr, and asks what kind of gin Daddy uses in his martinis. As Dad turns the color of vermouth, Mom remarks sagely that Mollie will "never again be as old as she is right...
...lawyer suing to rescind Bertrand Russell's teaching appointment in New York described Russell's writings as lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, untruthful, and bereft of moral fiber." The lawyer won his case...