Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British wit also characterizes the Dunster House production of Shaw's Heartbreak House. Though not lacking in Shavian verbal cleverness, this play is atypical Shaw in certain ways. It abounds in action, making it less talkative than Man and Superman or Saint Joan. The characters are more three-dimensional and very finely drawn; they espouse philosophies, instead of embodying them, as is so often the case with Shavian types. Often, in fact, they seem to echo characters of other plays by Shaw, only they turn out not to be what they seem. This motif runs through Heartbreak House...
Cushnahan rejected the possible solution of a united Ireland, noting that a British withdrawal could lower living standards and that Protestants in Ulster fear the church-dominated government of the Irish Republic might endanger their religious rights...
...independent Northern Ireland would be equally unsuccessful because such a state would be economically unviable and British withdrawal could lead to civil war, he said...
...With the British referee out of the ring, Catholic and Protestant para-militaries would each be going for victory over the other," he said, adding, "with such diametrically opposed objectives, a civil war would be inevitable...
...Future of North American Cities--Michael Goldberg, professor of Urban Land Economics, University of British Columbia, Coolidge Hall...