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...comment and controversy are heard on the day-and-night conversation shows, which seem to be trying to turn TV into a talkathon. They frantically compete with each other for big-name, talkers. Joey Bishop interviews Ronald Reagan, Carson brings on Ayn Rand, Merv Griffin chats with Bertrand Russell. One night, Dick Cavett has Norman Mailer as his guest, the next night he leads a spirited discussion between James Bald win and Yale Philosopher Paul Weiss...
Never one to go gently into a good fight, Britain's Bertrand Russell came caustically to the defense of atheism in countering rumors that he had got religion at the age of 96. "There is a lie factory at work on behalf of the afterlife," wrote Lord Russell to a U.S. housewife who queried him on his alleged conversion. "My views on religion remain those which I acquired at the age of 16. I consider all forms of religion not only false but harmful...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL: 1914-1944. 418 pages. Little, Brown...
...Bertrand Russell is one of the world's most penetrating thinkers within the disciplines of mathematics and philosophy, and one of the most provocative, not to say infuriating, outside them. Yet he has ventured only timidly and superficially into the field of self-confession. Now 96, he is nearly fanatical in his public utterances, notably those concerning his anti-American position on the Viet Nam war, but he is not a driven author who boldly and recklessly storms the secret vaults of his own life. He is more a Sunday writer, coyly playing it safe, as he wistfully leafs...
...Cambridge, England, 24-year-old Lytton Strachey was loudly proclaiming that he and his fellow members of the Apostles, a small society of intellectuals, were about to inherit the earth. They never quite made it, but in their later guise as the Bloomsbury Group-Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell among others-they did become the most powerful extra-Establishment gang that England has seen in this century...