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...many enemies: "All those columnists rapping me," he wrote in TV Guide, "where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket ... I want to get back at a lot of people. If I drop dead before I get to the Zs in the alphabet, you'll know how I hated...
...money Cradle Song is still a perfect gem of a play. The Sierras have used very few words from the dramatic alphabet, but with them they have managed to say a great many things about human nature. Indeed, the irrepressibility of human nature--of personality, of emotions, of love--seems to be the central theme of the play. The young girls in the convent have renounced worldly things, yet within the limits of monastic walls and rules their youthfulness and vitality burst forth in many ways--in girlish giggling, in writing poems, in squabbling with the other nuns. Most important...
...subject to whopping inheritance taxes in the 70% bracket. Meanwhile, G.B.S.'s will was soon to get raked over in court. When Shaw died at an un-mellowed 94 in 1950, he had made a bequest to provide a handsome subsidy to renovate the English alphabet. A hater of diphthongs and illogical pronunciations, Alphabetterer Shaw wanted the ABCs stretched to 40 letters on a one-sound, one-letter plan. Tart-tongued Lady Astor took one look at her old friend's idea and pronounced it ridiculous. The British Museum, one of Shaw's three institutional heirs...
Another machine Skinner has conceived would have a card-puncher and keyboard, possibly containing all the letters of the alphabet and all the numbers, which could be used to teach spelling, arithmetic, and, perhaps, other subjects. But its design would have to be left to engineers. Skinner will not attempt it himself...
...terrorism against villages and Indian government posts, wielding their razor-sharp daos (axlike knives) or shooting off Japanese and British arms pilfered from World War II caches. They were led by one A. Z. Phizo (who, lacking a Christian name, took the first and last letters of the alphabet). Phizo, 56, a mission-educated Naga, guided his warriors on ruthless raids in which they slaughtered hundreds of villagers and Indians, then retreated into the jungles and pathless mountain terrain...