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...philosophy that sustains the creatures throughout is mildly liberal and humane (somewhere between Bertrand Russell and Hubert Humphrey), and there are moments when one feels that perhaps the whole thing is just another cleverly put ecological tract. What sustains the viewer, however, besides the sound plotting, is the stylishness of the piece. Except for an unfortunate arty prologue with featureless backgrounds and stylized bunnies, Watership Down is made in the classic manner of the old, excellent Disney films. The background painting is rich and highly detailed, and this allows the multiplane camera to exploit its ability to create the illusion...
Katharine Tait, the late Bertrand Russell's daughter, denying that her father was a feminist although he talked like one: "He had four wives, and each one was just his wife and had no other career than being his wife. That in itself tells...
...swallow a piece of notepaper. Police retrieved a segment of the note; it was written in German and signed "Brigitte." The swallower insisted that he was simply a messenger, and that the note was about the "Russell tribunal" (a radical political colloquium in Frankfurt, named for British Lord Bertrand Russell, that discussed West German civil rights violations). He was released, but the curiosity lingered on. Could the Zagreb Brigitte also be the Milanese Brigitte...
...Bertrand L. Halperin '62, professor of Physics, is a member of a delegation of 19 U.S. scientists invited to attend a scientific symposium in Moscow this week. The delegates voted unanimously to cancel their visit after Orlov's sentencing...
...writes with good humor and some gallantry to an illiberal age. His reports of visits with Evelyn Waugh and Bertrand Russell are deft, and so is his mockery of computer-made verse ("Swish green albino dust/ Through avatars unborn"). Of this last, he adds, "Do you think I am poking fun at electronic devices, or the New, Liberated Poesy? Please believe me when I say: I certainly...