Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway has presented some 40 shows this season, seems certain to crack last year's record of 68. Still to come: George Bernard Shaw's Good King Charles's Golden Days, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, and a musical version of Tom Sawyer...
...George Bernard & Shawm...
...most popular and widely translated U.S. author in Russia and Iron Curtain countries (according to UNESCO), first became famous just after the turn of the century with three stories-two about dogs and one about a man. They closely resembled each other. Buck was a Saint Bernard and the dog in all the world least likely ever to be drawn by James Thurber, who found life too tame on the trail in The Call of the Wild and joined a wolf pack. White Fang told of a wolf that left Alaska to become civilized in California. The Sea Wolf told...
...revert to barbarism or adapt to civilization. Much of the fascination of London's work and life lay in the fact that he could never decide, for himself or for his characters, which footprints of what gigantic hound to follow-the wolf of the wilderness or the Saint Bernard of civilization...
...BERNARD SHAW, by St. John Ervine, and GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: MAN OF THE CENTURY, by Archibald Henderson. The answer to just about all questions that can arise about Shaw for a long time to come, Ervine's book is the more balanced and intimate, Henderson's the more massively researched. Together they leave no doubt of Shaw's gadfly genius...