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Because, for all his eccentricities, Bertrand Russell is an expert mathematician, an original philosopher and one of the most lucid modern writers, he has always been welcome in the world's great universities. A U. S. resident since 1938, he has taught at University of Chicago, University of California (this year), next fall will lecture at Harvard. Last week Bertrand Russell's career took a surprising turn: he was appointed a full professor and head of the philosophy department (beginning next February) of big, sprawling, pragmatic College of the City of New York...
Unlike those speeches, unlike the lucid anti-New Deal arguments of Senator Taft, are Candidate Dewey's current blasts. Nor has he raged intemperately on foreign affairs. He has expressed approval of traditional U. S. foreign policy (except for the New Deal "blunder"' of recognizing Soviet Russia), esteems seasoned well-respected ex-Secretary of State Henry Stimson, who in turn thinks highly of Secretary of State Hull. Dewey's slugs at the New Deal are sudden, savage, singleminded, are concentrated mostly on the New Deal's failure to put the unemployed to work. Single-minded...
...Lancet is an excellent weekly medical journal; but it is British. Its lucid medical articles delight U. S. medicos; its self-consciously lighter vein also delights them. Every week since the war began the Lancet has devoted a pasture-page to "our peripatetic correspondents," for gripes, wisecracks, sentimental reflections. Last week a peripatetic correspondent sounded off on British medical society dinners...
Champion Hopper's book contains, in addition to lucid dope on openings, cross-board tactics, traps and end-game maneuvers, a chapter illustrating ten games in which experts lambaste dubs. Sympathetic post-mortems diagnose, slip by slip, just where the dubs let the experts bring on the two, three, and four-for-one Blitzkriegs that usually wind up such games. The particular Blitzkrieg Champion Hopper is scheming in the cut above is a six-for-two "in-and-out" shot...
Probably no modern work of history or fiction ranks as such a thorough, lucid, conclusive payoff on war as Verdun. This it is, not through a mere presentation of the sickening personal truth of "combat" (Remarque) nor through scorn and excitement crystallized in art (Hemingway), but through a grownup, sympathetic intelligence. If Romains goes on so, he will have given the first grand perspective on war since War and Peace...