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Abstract
_Russell_ journal (home office): E:CPBRRUSSJOURTYPE2501\REVIEWS.251 : 2005-09-14 19:58 Reviews HANGING OUT WITH RUSSELL, BRANDO AND LENNON P S Political Science / Stanford U. Stanford, –, .@. Tariq Ali. Street Fighting Years: an Autobiography of the Sixties. New edition. London and New York: Verso, . Pp. x, . . (pb). ne Sunday morning in the spring of ,” writes Tariq Ali in his memoir “ OStreet Fighting Years: an Autobiography of the Sixties, I was so outraged by The Observer that I sat down and typed out an angry paragraph in the form of a letter to the editor. A friend who was having breakfast with me that day was cajoled into co-signing the missive. It was published the following week with a reply, which was predictable and pathetic. There the matter might have rested, except that a few days later I received a letter in the post from Wales. It was from “The Earl Russell, .. ...”, and the two lines read: “I should like to congratulate you on your just and excellent letter to today’s Observer. The Observer’s reply to it sickens me. Yours sincerely, Bertrand Russell.” Ali adds that he was “thrilled beyond belief. Bertrand Russell had been known to me through some of his books a long time ago. He was a legendary figure [A new letter, since a copy of it cannot be found in the Russell Archives. Other correspondence with Tariq Ali is present there.—Ed.] _Russell_ journal (home office): E:CPBRRUSSJOURTYPE2501\REVIEWS.251 : 2005-09-14 19:58 Reviews somewhere up in the mists and to receive a letter from him completely out of the blue was both a shock and an inspiration” (pp. –). Ali goes on to write of meeting Russell and his then-secretary, Ralph Schoenman . (After Russell broke with Schoenman, it was the Marxist paper Black Dwarf, for which Ali had previously worked, that first published Russell’s final “memorandum” on Schoenman.) He speaks extensively of his work with the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation in its early heady years. There is an entire chapter on Ali’s visit to Cambodia and North Vietnam as part of an investigative team for the International War Crimes Tribunal (Chap. ), and another chapter on his trip to Bolivia to investigate the arrest of Régis Debray, a French Marxist journalist captured after trying to meet with Che Guevara’s guerilla band (Chap. ). And there are shorter discussions of Ali’s other work for the Tribunal, such as a trip to Palestine after the Six Day War (pp. –). The book covers Ali’s entire activist life, not simply his work with Russell. It therefore contains much additional material unrelated to Russell, some dealing with Vietnam, some not. I particularly enjoyed the hilarious story of the time when Marlon Brando’s secretary called to say that Brando was inviting him to dinner. Thinking it was a joke, Ali reply was that “I was far too busy since I had prior engagements to eat with Henry Fonda and Laurence Olivier” (p. ). (Ultimately, Brando himself took the phone, convinced Ali that the offer was not a joke, and got him to come to dinner.) Ali paints a very entertaining portrait of Russell the man. He visited Russell at Plas Penrhyn at least once, in order to ask for Russell’s support for a protest campaign against a Labour .. Russell spoke at great length of his disgust for Harold Wilson’s support for the .. attack on Vietnam, and related with some relish that he had once refused to shake Wilson’s hand. Ali responded as follows : “So,” I began, “Wilson is the worst of the bunch?” He appeared deep in reflection. Then he shook his head. “Wilson is a small and petty man, but he is not the worst. I suppose if one has to make a choice I would say that Ramsay MacDonald was very dreadful. I can still hear his awful voice telling us that socialism would be built ‘brick by brick.’ Dreadful man. Some say that a party gets the leader it deserves. I don’t think the Labour Party deserved either MacDonald or Wilson.” (P. ) The visit lasted for some time, and touched on many other topics...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.035 | 0.036 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".