http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/06/19/down-along-the-coast-part-3/ An Economist's Travelogue Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:11:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/06/19/down-along-the-coast-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-473 mike Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:50:29 +0000 http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/?p=513#comment-473 Jim, Thanks for this. It is always great when a reader adds something so substantial to a post, so that other readers can get a deeper understanding of things. Hearst's father made a lot of money in mining, and we have seen so much devastation from mining, which is once again booming everywhere in the west. Jim, Thanks for this. It is always great when a reader adds something so substantial to a post, so that other readers can get a deeper understanding of things. Hearst’s father made a lot of money in mining, and we have seen so much devastation from mining, which is once again booming everywhere in the west.

]]> http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/06/19/down-along-the-coast-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-472 Jim Farmelant Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:37:47 +0000 http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/?p=513#comment-472 Concerning Hearst and his Castle, back in the 1920s and 1930s, the famous British philosopher Bertrand Russell was employed as a syndicated columnist for the Hearst newspapers (some of these columns are available online at: (http://www.scribd.com/doc/23110683/Bertrand-Russell-Columns-for-the-Hearst-Newspapers). The story goes that one day Hearst invited Russell to come to his Castle and that Russell turned down the invitation. Hearst felt insulted and snubbed by this refusal. Naturally, he fired Russell and he nursed a grudge against Russell for many years thereafter. In 1940, City College in New York City offered Russell a post as professor there. However, a local Episcopal bishop objected to this appointment and along with many of the leading Catholic clergy in NYC launched a campaign against the appointment of Russell on the grounds that he was an enemy of religion and morality (Russell being quite well known as an advocate of a liberalized sexual morality). And of course joining in this campaign was, you guessed it, the Hearst press, which gave widespread publicity to all of the anti-Russell charges that were coming from the clergy. As a result of this campaign the Russell's appointment as a professor at City College was quashed. Concerning Hearst and his Castle, back in the 1920s and 1930s, the famous British philosopher Bertrand Russell was employed as a syndicated columnist for the Hearst newspapers (some of these columns are available online at:
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/23110683/Bertrand-Russell-Columns-for-the-Hearst-Newspapers). The story goes that one day Hearst invited Russell to come to his Castle and that Russell turned down the invitation. Hearst felt insulted and snubbed by this refusal. Naturally, he fired Russell and he nursed a grudge against Russell for many years thereafter. In 1940, City College in New York City offered Russell a post as professor there. However, a local Episcopal bishop objected to this appointment and along with many of the leading Catholic clergy in NYC launched a campaign against the appointment of Russell on the grounds that he was an enemy of religion and morality (Russell being quite well known as an advocate of a liberalized sexual morality). And of course joining in this campaign was, you guessed it, the Hearst press, which gave widespread publicity to all of the anti-Russell charges that were coming from the clergy. As a result of this campaign the Russell’s appointment as a professor at City College was quashed.

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