Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general a squirrel-head (TIME, June 4). He acted as Father of the Bride with gracious dignity, and the entire nation shared his pride and his sadness. He wrote his memoirs and delighted in being called a liar by Douglas MacArthur and Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace and Bernard Baruch and Pat Hurley and Francis Biddle. He also stayed up to his eyeglasses in politics...
This pioneering work, which profoundly influenced Bernard Shaw's Getting Married and Candida, is not a great one. There is virtually no action; and the characters are on the whole rather two-dimensional. The entrances and exits are handled somewhat awkwardly; and the play's focus is not consistently clear. Ibsen had not yet reached that lofty fin-de-siecle peak that only Strindberg would eventually share with him. Nevertheless, no other play of Ibsen has so much sparkle and wit as Love's Comedy...
...John Bull's Other Island, Irishman Bernard Shaw developed the notion that the sentimental "top-o'-the-mornin'-to-ye" Irish character was an English invention designed to prove that the Irish were incapable of looking after themselves. Ever since, without exactly conceding Shaw's point, or, for that matter, calling the man a liar, Irish writers have been adapting and improving the original invention...
Supporting Argument. In Los Angeles, Deputy County Assessor Bernard Berkey appeared before a group of other assessors, failed to get the reduction he wanted on his own property despite his plea: "If the termites in my 36-year-old home were to stop holding hands the house would fall down...
Biographies in Sound (Tues. 8:35 p.m., NBC). George Bernard Shaw...