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...British Museum Concerts, a veddy upper matron advises her son, "This music was written by a German, deah. That's something you'll have to work out for yourself." Funny thing, war. The review also gets its licks at the Royal Family, the English way of death, the Establishment, Bertrand Russell, the Bomb, and Will Shakespeare...
...Russell, Bertrand Nightmares of Eminent Persons. (Simon & Schuster...
...Group IV. He was in Group IV again at the end of sophomore year, although he had produced one good long paper in government tutorial for Authur Holcombe, then an associate professor of Government. Aware of Kennedy's strong Democratic background, Holcombe assigned Kennedy work on Rep. Bertrand Snell, an upstate New York Republican who often spoke for private power interests. Kennedy apparently enjoyed his study of Snell...
...record of their defeats: portraits etched in acid and affection. There was the romantic poet Lionel Johnson, "a spiritual waif who couldn't endure the truth, but demanded a lovelier fiction to revel in, invented, or accepted it, and called it revelation." There was the "brilliant genius" Bertrand Russell, who suffered from "a microscopic intensity that narrowed each of his insights, lost the substance in the visible image, the sense in the logic of the words, and made him, though he might be many-sided, a many-sided fanatic...
Passionate Detachment. Bertrand Russell scoffed at Santayana's detached philosophy as the result of "emotional privation." It is true that Santayana was leary of emotion all his life, especially sexual emotion; he had come from a cold and broken family. But Biographer Cory shows how much passion can be put into a philosophy of detachment. Cory had been Santayana's private secretary and kept in touch with him for 25 years, and Santayana unburdened himself to Cory as to few others. Explaining why his philosophy seemed so cool, he once wrote: "Each passion or hope when alive sees...