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...disappointments of the year was John Hersey's The Marmot Drive, the story of a Connecticut woodchuck hunt, full of murky meanings and pseudo-archaic Yankee lingo. One of the real surprises of the year was the belated bow in fiction of aged (81) Philosopher Bertrand Russell. His Satan in the Suburbs consisted of five stories whose weird plots and good-natured skepticism made for pretty good...
...called phrase Communism ""Christian "undoubtedly the most serious menace which has threatened the Christian Faith in the civilized world for some hundreds of years." The theme has since been used by such bril liant foes of Communism as Roman Catholic Jacques Maritain, Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr and Skeptic Bertrand Russell. All these see what Driberg and Muggeridge glibly overlook - that battles against heresy may be more critical than battles against completely alien faiths...
Demos admits that while his first days at Harvard were stimulating, they were also confusing. "Bertrand Russell who was then with the philosophy department confounded me with huge words that were not in my English vocabulary, and I read a paper by T.S. Elliot of which I understood about half...
...prints articles, fiction and poetry by writers from six countries, including the unpublished diaries of Virginia Woolf, essays by France's Albert Camus and British-born Christopher Isherwood, poetry by C. Day Lewis and Edith Sitwell. Among future contributors of articles and fiction for the magazine: Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, W. H. Auden, Aldous
Satan in the Suburbs, by Bertrand Russell. Sardonic stories by an aging philosopher turned fictioneer (TIME, July...