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...Nobel literary prizewinner, also named last week, was 78-year-old British Philosopher Bertrand,Lord Russell. The 1949 literary prize, held over from last fall because members of the Swedish Academy failed to agree on a candidate, went to U.S. Novelist William Faulkner, 53-year-old Mississippian...
...Bertrand Russell came here last week to offer a "neutral monism" as the answer to the problem of the dichotomy of mind and matter. Unfortunately, his audience was treated to a demonstration of the supremacy of matter that left several of them badly bruised...
...Bertrand Russell, one of the world's most famous living philosophers, will speak at New Lecture Hall at 4:30 p.m. today...
Before long, the world began to hear a good deal about L.S.E. Hundreds of students flocked to hear Philosopher Bertrand Russell, or Sidney Webb himself, lecturing on the Fabian way in his high nasal voice. In 1912 a young man named Clement Attlee joined the faculty to teach social science and administration. Former pupils remember him as a quiet, dry, sometimes boring lecturer, devoted to his subject, who inspired classes only by his meticulous sincerity. Later, other young reformers followed: Philip Noel-Baker, now Labor's Minister of Fuel and Power; onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton...
...meeting of the Philosophical Society of England, Philosopher Bertrand Russell had a thought for his fellow thinkers: "It would be difficult to think of an age when there is so little wisdom. In the present world people are extraordinarily specialized, and one man knows everything about his own job, but nothing about the next . . . Wisdom is quite a different thing than specialized knowledge...