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...four years the Hearst New York Journal & American had screamed that the city's schools and colleges were honeycombed with Reds. Bertrand Russell's appointment last spring to teach at City College (later overruled by the courts) was the last straw. Taxpayers, American Legionnaires and Tammanyites, who have no love either for Communism or the city's anti-Tammany school and college boards, got the Legislature to vote a sweeping inquiry into the State's educational system, including "subversive" activities in New York City...
...world is beset with problems which badly need thinking through. First problem, say professional thinkers-i.e., philosophers-is how to go about thinking at all. Two new books attack the impasse. Bertrand Russell pursues An Inquiry into...
...INQUIRY INTO MEANING & TRUTH-Bertrand Russell-Norton...
...were arrested, fined. Hundreds were searched and at least one hundred were run in for carrying knives with blades longer than the six-inch maximum allowed by law. Twenty colored kindergartners were lined up, pawed over by the Crump cops. Frisked in front of Atkinson's was Father Bertrand Kock, white pastor of Mrs. Atkinson's church. Police patted his Franciscan robe, made him take off his shoes...
Taking as his theme "Significant Changes in the World in the Past Sixty Years" or "Some Difficulties in Growing Old," Bertrand Russell, noted philospher and mathematician, last night told a large gathering in the Eliot House dining room that the main difference between the world of 1940 and the 19th century is the decay of security in Europe...