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Unfortunately, the Williamses flourish the needle of humor without jabbing it into any rich vein of comedy. An artificial drawing-room comedy can nurture an earthy home truth. But To Love spouts more poppycock about the parent-child relationship and child rearing than has been heard since Bertrand Russell ran a school where boys and girls played together in the nude. Elegantly gowned by Parisian couturiers, Claudette Colbert, who seems to have a dimple in her voice, whips herself into an understandable motherly and wifely froth. As the son, Robert Drivas is a personable rebel. The evening belongs to Cyril...
...Nazi sympathies, an old and absurdly exaggerated charge,* and of meddling too much in Greek politics, hardly a British concern. The anti-Greek chorus is made up of a motley collection of Communists, Socialists, antimonarchists, vague crusaders in search of new causes, ban-the-bombers (including that foolish sage, Bertrand Russell), all of them joined in the London streets by joyriding beatniks. Amazingly, they were also joined, in spirit, by Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson and Deputy Leader George Brown, who chose to boycott a banquet for the visitors-which could only raise questions about the mental health and stability...
Despite many personal details (Bertrand Russell, we learn, smokes a pipe and reads detective stories) and ostentatious visual descriptions of each philosopher's appearance (which the author obviously had to ask for), it is difficult from Ved Mehta's elliptical notes to get a good grip on just what the men are or what they stand...
Communists and well-meaning liberals outside Greece, particularly in Britain, this year started a concerted campaign against the Karamanlis regime, and against the royal family-notably Queen Frederika, who was accused of Nazi connections. Bertrand Russell's ban-the-bombers joined the fray, and last April, when Frederika was in London for the wedding of her third cousin Princess Alexandra, she was set upon by a crowd of demonstrators and forced to seek refuge in a private house. Britain's anti-Greek chorus was swelled by Lord Beaverbrook, who, for reasons of his own, scurrilously attacked...
...fallible. Bertrand Russell is a man. Therefore, Bertrand Russell is fallible. This syllogism serves as a pragmatically valuable prelude to a discussion of the philosophy of James, Russell, like many other critics of pragmatism, greatly distorts the doctrine for the sake of a clever and cursory refutation. "It is obvious," he writes in A History of Western Philosophy, "that if I say "Hitler exists' I do not mean 'the effects of believing that Hitler exists are good'" Once one recovers from the polemical rabbit punch, the weakness is Russell's argument should be clear...