Word: bernard
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Faint Whisper. The telescope is the baby of Dr. Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, professor of radio astronomy at the University of Manchester. It was designed by Henry Charles Husband, and its cost (more than $2,000,000) was paid by the Nuffield Foundation and Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Leading British companies vied to make the telescope as nearly perfect as possible. They succeeded so well that its moving parts (total weight 2,000 tons) sweep the great bowl across the sky as smoothly and inevitably as if the earth were moving...
...Zilliacus, Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled childhood, when her father was with the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva, Stella Zilliacus obviously kept her eyes open and the tape recorder of her memory turned on. Real names drop like ripe plums-Nehru, H. G. Wells, Anthony Eden, Bernard Shaw-and the fictional ones seem to be readily guessable. What emerges is a wickedly witty portrait of an atheistic, humanist household headed by a zealot father who devoutly believes that religion is "nothing but a means of maintaining injustice, corruption and poverty," and a euphoric mother who dismisses...
...conference on the "Uses of Literary Criticism" has been scheduled for Wednesday, July 24 at Sanders Theater at 8:30 p.m., with Elizabeth Hardwick as moderator, Newton Arvin, Saul Bellow, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Denber Lindly. "Dear Liar," the letters of George Bernard Shaw, has been scheduled for Wednesday, July 31, at Kresge Auditorium at 8:30 p.m., to be read by Jerome Kilty and Cavada Humphrey...
...choice of a play this year fell on Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple," which had four performances. It is not the best Shaw, but it is the only full-length play he wrote about America and the first of his works to be staged in this country. The play begins as a romantic melodrama, but suddenly turns into a witty farce of lese-majeste in the last...
Married. Archibald Henderson, 80, jolly, early-days interpreter of the Einstein theory, as well as official biographer of the late George Bernard Shaw ("Henderson collected me"), drama critic, historian of the South, friend of Mark Twain and longtime (retired: 1948) mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina; and Lucile Kelling, 62. dean of U.N.C.'s School of Library Science, short-story writer, poet, classicist and fellow Shavian; he for the second.time, she for the first; in Chapel Hill...