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Fellow Prisoners. Russell's chronology begins with his imprisonment for pacifism in England during World War I, a subject about which he is willing to jest: "My fellow prisoners seemed to me in no way morally inferior to the rest of the population, though they were on the whole slightly below the usual level of intelligence, as was shown by their having been caught." It ends with his virtual banishment from American academia during World War II, when C.C.N.Y. reneged on its commitment to him because of his reputed permissive attitudes about sex. This Russell finds no laughing matter...
...hooked on day-work (which they can quit easily), earning maybe $7 or $8 a day as a launderer, car washer or janitor. Or they begin hitting the bottle, hanging out in such bars as the "Country A Go-Go" (hillbilly music and rock) where they "jest set" and tip back straight shots of bourbon. Arguments start, fists and knives flail, blood is spilled. As one Appalachian woman complained recently, while her kids played games with the mice that infest her apartment, "Daddy's gone, and I'm tired of bein' a nobody, a nothin...
Addressing the audience, he held high a cardboard cylinder, which he identified as a mace--"the only one I've got besides those we use for tranquilizing crowds and a Hasty Pudding crowd shouldn't need tranquilizing." Surely the sheriff was in jest...
...tried to say a thing when they carried him out in jest...
...implications. Already I am receiving lauda tory mail from "rightists," confirming my fear that the article implied that I am an uncompromising hawk on the war and that I have been abused by doves at Harvard. Nothing could be further from the truth. The appellate "resident fascist" was a jest made in absolute good nature by a close friend. The vast majority of Harvard students accept returning Vietvets with much interest and understanding...