BERTRAND RUSSELL: The Ghost of Madness. By Ray Monk. Free Press, $40. THE splendid subtitles of Ray Monk's two-volume biography of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell illuminate two aspects ...

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Over the course of a long career, Russell also ...

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Although 1963 and 1964 belonged to the jubilee star, a different genre of films was beginning to capture the public imagination. Along with Rajendra Kumar’s Sangam and Zindagi, 1964 and 1965 saw films ...