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...third Earl Russell, whose grandfather was a Victorian Prime Minister, often acts as if he had inherited the job along with the family title. Since the Cuban crisis erupted last month, Bertrand Russell (family motto: Che Sara Sara) has been cabling, writing and calling world statesmen with such vim and volubility that the government in Whitehall has had trouble getting a word in edgewise...
NEWMAN'S approach to Eddington is not an extreme example of his distressingly glib judgments in Science Sensibility. The point is typified by a remark in one of the earlier essays: "I agree entirely with Bertrand that intellectually Pythagoras was one of the most important men that ever lived, both when he was wise and when he was unwise.'" We're by now with the notion that and unwisdom generate scientific progress. But it is one thing to say that one scientist's mistakes send another in the right direction, and quite another that unwisdom in a wayward scientist presents...
Against this surge of feeling, Khrushchev reacted hesitantly. Twelve hours after Kennedy's speech, the Kremlin issued a cautiously worded statement. Then Khrushchev sent a peace-rattling message to British Pacifist Bertrand Russell...
When Architect Bertrand Goldberg tried to explain this concept to his mother-in-law, she replied: "That's simple. It's what we used to call living above the store." The reasons for round buildings are as varied as their purposes. In some, roundness has been dictated by a client who simply wants "something different"-and to this group belong the mushroom motels and "fun" private houses that punctuate the countryside. In others, site, utility and economics, as well as esthetics, are factors. Round buildings can be functional and beautiful, thrifty and structurally sound. As long as rectangular...
Aiken said that the philosopher must go out into the world, as Bertrand Russell has done in England, but not until he has transcended himself and has gained "a true and trustworthy vision of the good...