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French Political Scientist Bertrand de Jouvenel has described two of the main categories of leaders as dux, literally leader, and rex, literally ruler. Dux is the activist and innovator, often an inspirational type. Rex is the stabilizer or broker or manager...
...focusing on the specific reactions of the father, Bertrand Tavernier saves the film from triviality as well as tedium. The story of a young man rebelling against a garden variety of evil most people hardly notice could easily have become an exercise in moral smugness. But Bernard's act concerns us far less than his father's awakening understanding and acceptance of it. After the trial, at which Michel scandalizes everyone by announcing that he stands behind his son, he leans into the wind on a bridge over the Saone while Antoine indulges in a tirade against authority. Antoine...
...days ago, Carter plucked out Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy. He handled it gently, like an old friend, opening the worn pages carefully and glancing at familiar lines. "I've read it three or four times," he said...
Eleanor Herbert is a consummate self-deceiver. In her youth she entertained a succession of university students on the grounds that "there was no harm in making love, if they could first refer to Bertrand Russell." Imagining herself to be a literary talent, she rewrote a story 23 times until it grew "simpler, clearer, more barren each time...
According to estimates of organizations such as the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, there are now 100,000 political prisoners in Iran, most of whom have been jailed for criticizing or otherwise opposing the dictatorship of Shah Reza Pahlavi. Many of these prisoners are Iran's most gifted writers, artists, poets, intellectuals and university professors...