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When we think of George Bernard Shaw, the first qualities that come to mind are a brilliant comic gift and an incisive, yet essentially kindly eye for social satire. It is sometimes difficult to remember that the playwright was also a serious thinker with serious, if now some what outmoded, philosophical ideas that he incorporated in many of his major plays. In this vein, a particularly successful fusion of comedy and philosophy is "Man and Superman," now enjoying a lively and stylish presentation at the American Repertory Theatre...
...Reported by Bernard Baumohl/Reston and Richard Woodbury/Phoenix
...John Greenwald. Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York City
...DIED. BERNARD VONNEGUT, 82, physicist who turned rainmaking into more than a song and dance; in Albany, N.Y. An expert in tempests and twisters, Vonnegut (brother of novelist Kurt) conjured rain in the 1940s by seeding clouds with silver iodide...
...Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York