The Washington Post, August 16th, 1992
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL;Volume 1: The Private Years, 1884-1914 Edited by Nicholas Griffin Houghton Mifflin. 553 pp. $35 "HE LAUGHED like an irresponsible foetus. His laughter was submarine and profound . . ." So the 25-year-old T.S. Eliot, then a Harvard graduate student in philosophy, described the unsettling, suggestive social manner of visiting professor Bertrand Russell. "I thought of . . . Priapus in the shrubbery/ Gaping at the lady in the swing." It was a Sunday, May 1914, and both men had attended a gathering in the country with members of the Harvard philosophy depart...
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