Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jackpot winner was Linda Bartlett of California. Miss Bartlett may have been wanted by the Crimeds for their title, but when she was asked to appear a week later at a pre-Army game rally, Associate Dean Watson refused to give his permission...
...material which did appear, only the "Lawrison" piece could be described as successful. In a flat and unpretentious voice Ratte describes a way of life, or the change which it is undergoing. The voice is personal, the viewpoint biographical, and yet the tone is often that of a Dos Passos report to the nation. Perhaps because of the relaxed tone, perhaps because of the form, the reader does not expect any more of the story than he gets. A mood and perhaps an insight are offered, and whether or not this is enough, it is unquestionably all there...
...heroism, and of nearly morbid sensitivity, the lieutenant is driven to break South Africa's iron law by the frigidity of his wife and a lack of understanding on the part of his father. Sullivan's portrayal of the man's strength is clear and impressive, but his weaknesses appear as if they were brought on by nothing more serious than a hangover...
...that "Shaw was never unhappy." Shaw's loveless childhood, drink-ridden father and hungry adolescence make it quite clear that few university dons have started life with so many handicaps or so much courage. In some versions of his life, G.B.S. seems so cold and distant that friends appear merely as puppets. Not so in this book-as is evident from Biographer Ervine's memorable description of Mrs. Sidney Webb and her husband, both Shaw's fellow Fabians: "Her embraces sometimes seemed more like assaults than endearments. [Sidney] would sit in his chair, with a statistical abstract...
...reminder that the critics are wrong in taking everything Shaw said about himself at face value. He told, for instance, how he had sponged off his mother while he was trying to learn his trade as a writer. This picture of the callous genius-which was to appear in many of his plays-delighted him, but it was totally untrue, says Ervine. Similarly, Shaw roared outrageous-and contradictory-political, social and economic opinions that, often as not, were hyperbole...