Stealing the Show
ERTRAND RUSSELL clearly enjoyed his reminiscences, entitled Portraits from Memory, now to be heard from 4YC, and his enjoyment alone would carry his listener with him. His subjects are interesting in themselves;
but Russell, like Boswell, like Dr. Watson, has managed to steal the show with his sly wit, and above all, his urbanity, which leaves us unprepared for statements such as: "I laughed so heartily at Eminent Victorians, that the. prison guard felt obliged to remind me that prison is a place of punishment." Or again, of Lytton Strachey as an historian: "In my more unkind moments, I have even thought he was a little likeMacaulay." But most surprising of all was his sudden descent into straight-out mimicry of Strachey’s squeaky voice, with amazing effect. Russel] was playing entant terrible with gusto, and the result
was delightful.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 743, 9 October 1953, Page 10
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142Stealing the Show New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 743, 9 October 1953, Page 10
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