Word: ayot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horror, sickness, injustice and death, life pronounces its ultimate comment and blessing on life by indefatigably and irresistibly re-creating itself. While this is a philosophical "happy ending," it sounds suspiciously like a chaos of fecundity, something that scarcely bothered Shaw (or Wilson either, apparently) since the sage of Ayot St. Lawrence had a bumptious faith that the Life Force, as he called it, was busily breeding a race of pure, disembodied intellects or super-Shaws...
Fretting over how posterity would remember him, the late George Bernard Shaw left his country cottage at Ayot St. Lawrence to a national trust in the hope that the place would survive him as a shrine. But he left not a shilling for its upkeep. For a year after G.B.S.'s death in 1950, visitors came in swarms at two bob a head, and made the place selfsupporting. But as memories of Shaw faded, so did attendance. Last week the trustees announced that the Ayot cottage, not hallowed enough to pay its own way as a monument, will...
...worldwide campaign to raise a fund of $700,000 to maintain the Ayot St. Lawrence home of George Bernard Shaw as a memorial was called off after nine months of work produced about...
...postcard was signed by a onetime music critic, George Bernard Shaw, who had had a long talk with Rayinski one day after hearing him play outside Shaw's house in Ayot Saint Lawrence...
...British government announced that George Bernard Shaw's fussy old Victorian house at Ayot St. Lawrence would be kept as a national shrine. Housekeeper Alice Laden promised to keep everything just as Shaw left it, including his prized photographs of Gandhi, Lenin, Stalin and Ibsen, which line the dining room mantelpiece...