Word: clark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bordley (167 lbs.), a blind freshman making his third start of the campaign, ran up against Dartmouth's best wrestler, Rick Clark. The two had battled to a 5-5 deadlock by the middle of the second period when Clark pinned Bordley for Dartmouth's only points of the night...
...been plagued by lack of depth. Northeastern enters the Beanpot with a 7-4 mark, the only winning squad in the tourney despite the absence of 6'7" center Mark van Landenham, who is out with a broken ankle. The Huskies' workhorse is 6'2" All-American guard John Clark. Winless B.U. has probably faced the stiffest competition this season. The squad's southern road swing turned into a debacle as Mercer, Citadel, Rollins and Southern Florida successively lashed the Terriers...
...voluminous Life. Biographer Ronald Clark presents the full range of Russell's behavior that would not do: the grandson of a former Prime Minister, standing for Parliament in 1907 as the first candidate of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies; going to prison for pacifist activities during World War I; and leaving a wife behind in England in 1921 while he went to China for a year with another woman -Dora Black, the future second...
Perfect Woman. In his attempt to be dutifully definitive, Biographer Clark plods doggedly, day by day, through all 98 years of Russell's life: from his miserably unhappy childhood spent in the morbid solitude of his grandmother's house ("She would call me by mistake the names of people who were dead") to his final years as the thundering, latter-day Ezekiel of the nuclear disarmament movement. The result is a work that is more thorough than thoughtful...
Although far less ambitious and comprehensive than Clark's biography, My Father, Bertrand Russell succeeds better in bringing the man into focus. Katharine Tait, Russell's daughter by Dora, understands what linked the brilliant young nationalist of the Principia Mathematica (who with his teacher Whitehead and his student Wittgenstein redirected modern philosophy away from German idealism) to the political and sexual provocateur of later years: "All his life he sought perfection: perfect mathematical truth, perfect philosophical clarity, a perfect formula for society, and a perfect woman to live with in a perfect human relationship...