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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plas Penrhyn, his comfortable country house in northern Wales, he worked until the very end-a sparrow of a man, 97 years old and still trying to straighten out the world. A statement went off to Cairo on the Middle East crisis; letters and papers were prepared on Viet Nam and the plight of political prisoners. Then, after a whisky, he retired with a touch of flu to his bedroom overlooking Tremadoc Bay. Not long afterward, the long, passionate life of Bertrand Russell came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Last of the Victorian Rebels | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

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