Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BERNARD SHAW: COLLECTED LETTERS (1874-1897), edited by Dan H. Laurence. Nearly 700 letters-anecdotal, flirtatious, argumentative-are more than just the brilliant babble of a compulsive correspondent; they comprise an autobiography of G.B.S.'s prodigious early years as music and drama critic, socialist propagandist and philanderer. A first volume, which ends as fame dawns for the playwright...
Income from the estate of Bernard Berenson, who willed the villa and its library to Harvard in 1959, is $65,000. A two-million dollar endowment would increase the annual income...
...BERNARD SHAW: COLLECTED LETTERS (1874-1897) edited by Dan H. Laurence. 877 pages. Dodd, Mead...
Probably no man wrote more letters. "There must be billions of them," George Bernard Shaw once told his American publisher. There were, in fact, more than 250,000. Six hundred and ninety-one are printed in this volume, and three more volumes are on the way. Shaw was what is called today a compulsive writer; he carried a cloth bag of unanswered correspondence about with him, to be dipped into and answered at any idle moment-"scrawled in trains, between acts, in fragments to amuse you at breakfast," he wrote. They will astonish today's telephone generation, which normally...
...debate proceeded, Councillors Edward A. Crane '35, the former mayor and a Curry supporter, and Bernard Goldberg, a DeGuglielmo backer, exchanged perhaps the bitterest words of the entire dispute...