Word: dora
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...DORA RUSSELL 304 pages. Putnam...
...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...
Russell. Nor would it do when in 1927 Bertrand and Dora opened up Beacon Hill, a progressive school where children were allowed to roam the grounds naked and taught how to be good, godless creatures of the earth...
Even more telling is Dora Russell's The Tamarisk Tree. Although Dora has lived a full and active life during the 45 years since her divorce, the autobiography she published this fall ends at the point of Russell's departure. Sadly, the book reads like a prolonged apologia for the fact that Russell left her, as if that called her worth rather than his capacity to love into question...
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...