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...easy to be an atheist, a skeptic. My hope is that students will dare to be emotionally honest, instead of falling into an easy blase attitude... The most individualistic thing to do on the Harvard campus now would be to become a religious...
...stage debut. An avid Twain buff since college days, TV Actor (Grayling Dennis on the CBS serial The Brighter Day, for six years) Holbrook has expertly culled Twain's speeches, autobiography and stories for his program. What emerges is no mellow dodderer, but a caustic sage brimming with skeptic laughter...
...Passionate Skeptic is a highly readable and enjoyable book, simply because it relates the life of an extraordinary contemporary who has constantly been in the thick of things, intellectual and political, for the past 87 years. There are personal glimpses of such luminaries as G. E. Moore, Wittgenstein, Shaw, Keynes, Santayana, Whitehead, H. G. Wells, the Trevelyans, the Webbs, and the sessions of the Bloomsbury Group. There are also the various views of Harvard as it has changed over the half-century during which Russell has visited it. When Russell taught symbolic logic here in 1914, for instance he seemed...
...dilemma both wonder-struck and plausible in the telling. By ingenious design, his exchanges between Mr. White and Mr. Black abounded in ambiguously open-ended clues to their real identity. He also managed a neat solution: a staring match between the contenders, proposed by the ornery town skeptic to keep the town from stampeding in favor of Mr. White. Isolated in a drawn circle, the two stared and glared away for days, without flinching or even growing a whisker. When Mr. White seemed to falter, a little girl rushed into the forbidden circle with a dipper of water and suddenly...
...brief four-year life and $120,000 budget and will probably lie unread until another wave of indignation again demands a cleanup of organized crime. The Commission made few worthwhile recommendations, and the manner in which they were presented minimizes the chances of any resulting action. A State House skeptic summed up the general reaction to the report: "At least it tells you how to play...