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...Bertrand Russell (Sun. 5:30 p.m., NBC). Filmed interview with Russell on his 80th birthday: "Eighty Years of Changing Beliefs and Unchanging Hopes...
NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA (318 pp.)-The Journals of General Bertrand, January-May, 1821-Doubleday...
...finest piece of work since the Romans," said Napoleon of General Henri-Gatien Bertrand's bridging of the Danube in 1809. Four years later, Napoleon made Bertrand grand marshal of the imperial palace, and in this capacity the old soldier followed his master into exile at St. Helena. When Bertrand died, in 1844, he bequeathed his notebooks of the exile to his daughter Hortense, who in turn entrusted them to a French bureaucrat with orders to publish them 25 years after her death. All in all, it was not until 1946 that the grand marshal's strongbox...
...spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ("It is time that [his] pedestal were dismounted") and Bertrand Russell ("He made a fool of himself"). He has spoken ill of children ("the most imperfect of all human beings") and dogs ("they are only brutes"). He has dared to say, several times and in public, that Darwin was wrong. He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice. Like a Socratic traveling salesman, he has moved up & down the country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks...
...Bertrand Russell...