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...Rivalry. There has been only one Shaffer flop to date, The Battle of Shrivings, about the pitting of a peace movement leader, rather like Bertrand Russell, against an errant disciple. Ironically it opened within weeks of his brother Anthony's hit Sleuth in 1970. Peter says there is no fraternal rivalry; he suggested that Anthony, who was making films for TV, try writing again...
...Gianni Tognoni spoke about the Bertrand Russell Tribunal's investigation of the treatment of political prisoners in Latin America last night before a sparse audience at the Medical School...
Tognoni said the tribunal, founded by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre to investigate allegations of U.S. war crimes in Vietnam, has turned its attention on Latin America "because there are the same kinds of imperialism and exploitation occurring there as occurred in Vietnam...
...ultimately gave him a somewhat lukewarm endorsement, too. But though the Cuban missile crisis evoked the most vocal radical outcry Harvard had heard in years, it also finished the Hughes campaign--few voters followed him in criticizing its "contrived and theatrical atmosphere." Not even a last-minute endorsement from Bertrand Russell helped; Hughes won only about 2 per cent of the vote--50,000 votes...
There seems to have been no period of happiness. She was not only ill and unbalanced, but early in the marriage apparently allowed herself to be seduced by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. Eliot at the time was working in a bank to feed himself, writing book reviews to supplement his income, editing his own literary journal, the Criterion, and weekending with Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set. Very soon he was forced to add another task, that of being an almost full-time nurse during Vivienne's steady affliction from migraine headaches...