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...Cambridge, it was much the same. There were trips to old abbeys and castles that "haunted me like a passion." There was flashing talk in the common rooms, deep conversations with young Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead; and there were frequent visits to that master historian, Lord Acton...
...High. Brumm, Gordon Lee of 2208 Emily Drive, Lakewood; Lakewood High. Cadenhead, Ian William of 39 Shelton Boulevard, Willoughby; Union High, Willoughby. Genuth, Saul Maurice of 3533 Hildana Road, Cleveland; Shaker Heights High, Shaker Heights. Kjellgren, Bengt Hugo of 2423 Eaton Road, Cleveland; Western Reserve Academy, Hudson. Layzer, Robert Bertrand of 2851 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights; Cleveland Heights High. Reinhardt, Nicholas of RR No. 1, Raglund Road, Newtown; Terrace Park High, Terrace Park. Senger, Harry Lech, Jr. of 316 Dixmyth Street, Cincinnati; Walnut Hills High, Cincinnati. Turner, Richard Parks of 256 Aberdeen Avenue, Dayton; Oakwood High, Dayton...
...confusing influence with power, made his own list of the 25 who "really rule the world . . . the political, intellectual, and moral rulers . . .": Stalin, Churchill, Nehru, Pope Pius, Weizmann, Mao Tse-tung, Tito; and Physicist Albert Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer and Reinhold Niebuhr; and, as a "moral symbol of the Western democratic creed, whom the whole world recognizes," Eleanor...
Books v. Convertibles. Stoke wasted no time. As some students sized him up, he was a friendly, mild-mannered political scientist, still youthful and brisk at 44, whose idea of a good time was to sit down in his study with a copy of Bertrand Russell. But L.S.U. found new President Stoke meant business about keeping politics off the campus at Baton Rouge. He wanted Louisianans to understand that the university was for education and not "an instrumentality of government." Nor was the university a playground. "Give a student a convertible and a textbook," he said, "and you cannot expect...
...found them to be neither. But St. John's felt reassured on one point: there seemed to be no regrets. No one indicated that if he had it to do all over he would not start right in with Homer, happily read on up through Bertrand Russell again...