Word: bernard
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Recognition of a sort did indeed follow. In 1958, Anderson was caught in a hotel room with a federal investigator eavesdropping on Bernard Goldfine, the generous industrialist whose relationship with Sherman Adams became a major Eisenhower Administration scandal...
First to Go. Soon Bernard and his brothers realized that many ill-managed French textile firms needed just a little push to fall into their hands. Openly or covertly, they managed to get the balance sheets of failing companies, then they made their...
RECOLLECTIONS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW by R. J. Minney. 211 pages. Prentice-Hall...
Posthumous polishers have labored for years restoring to its original luster the work of art called George Bernard Shaw. It is not an easy task. For one thing, Shaw himself spent a long lifetime creating his own image. Just where the real Shaw ends and Shaw's Shaw begins is hard to discover. The great Victorian iconoclast, moreover, survives today mainly as a great Victorian icon - the last best literary ornament of the age he helped to destroy...
...life itself by the extinction of the great Victorian know-it-alls, the proud and prodigious polymaths of an age whose greatness is now seen to lie in the clever children who wrote its obituary? As these collections again attest, the cleverest child of all was George Bernard Shaw, who could invent a new name for God and tackle anything and anyone, even though he could never learn to eat and drink or make love like other men, occasionally shut up, or even master the bicycle...